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...Creative Music Studio in Woodstock and River's Soho performance loft, both of which depend on a precarious assortment of grants and private donations for support. Life on the road is still possible, but it takes a lot of luck and effort to overcome a nation's inertial indifference. Dexter Gordon, probably the finest tenor saxophonist to emerge during the Forties, fled to Europe when the American scene began to dry up during the Sixties. Gordon's occasional stateside sorties were inconclusive until he made his highly publicized "homecoming" tour...
Brown, however, should not be underrated. The Crimson barely edged the Bruins in a nailbiting 1-0 game under the lights at Aldrich Dexter field in Providence earlier this season...
...doubts that the Harvard women's soccer team was not the best in the Ivy League were squelched last night as the Crimson booters rolled over Brown, 1-0, under the lights at Aldrich Dexter field in Providence...
...expanded its season two years ago from 20 to 24 weeks, and from three new productions a year to four. The triumvirate that now rules the Met--James Levine as music director, John Dexter as director of production, and Anthony Bliss as executive director--is enthusiastic and ambitious, but many New York opera-goers feel that they are spreading their resources too thin...
...Both Dexter and Levine have performed erratically. Dexter's record with modern opera is extraordinary--his Dialogues of the Carmelites and Billy Budd exemplify how best to present modern operas with narrow appeal. But his productions of standards from the nineteenth century repertory, like his curious Rigoletto, have infuriated audiences. Levine's conducting has gained undeserved acclaim in the press. It's forceful, direct, and intractably unsubtle; Levine takes scores and homogenizes them. Furthermore, at a callow 35 he is attempting to conduct everything in the repertory from Mozart to Berg and Weill...