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Meanwhile, that's the lineup for the rest of the month. A good bunch of musicians, but none of them can compare to the Bermuda Strollers, whose talented rendition of "Obla-dee, Oblada" brightened up my spring vacation considerably. They should be coming soon to the Berklee Performance Center. When they do, I suggest you hop on the next moped to Bermuda (the headline lied...
...bootleg any more, but the Cotton Club is as jazzy as ever. Harlem's celebrated nightspot, which closed in the 1940s, reopened its doors last week. Cavorting together in the new digs were Duke Ellington's granddaughter, Mercedes Ellington and Cab Calloway, 70, who used to Hi-dee-ho at the club in the '30s. "Just another gig," shrugged Calloway, who does about 150 a year and has just recorded a disco version of his 1931 hit Minnie the Moocher. "I live good. I don't indulge in anything other than the normal indulgences," he reflected...
...boring, and an avant-garde treatment may be too freaky for popular acceptance. Either way, it's hard to win. An example is the New York Shakespeare Festival's production of Hamlet in 1975. The show featured a fine cast, including Sam Waterston as the prince and Ruby Dee as Gertrude, but their fine performances were underwhelmed by aggressively groovy staging, which featured banks of lights flashing into the audience whenever a climactic moment came to pass...
...originals were much better. Elton's willingness to perform them only showed that his fire was burning out. "Island Girl," an original, was among the most annoying of AM radio's most played tunes. "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," a vapid, iivv number Elton recorded with Kiki Dee, starts nowhere and goes nowhere but takes up four minutes and 23 seconds of air time. In "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" Elton tries to divert the audience's attention from the song's aimlessness by pouring on strings and driving the tune along with relentless loud percussion--the same...
...indolence and stagnation matched only by the indolence and stagnation of liberal rhetoric. The Lampoon may be an elephant, but HRBSA isn't mouse enough to take it on, and neither organization can hope to match the grey hulk of Harvard. It's yet another example of Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum twiddling each others' twaddle...