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This is the Metropolitan Opera's second season under the joint leadership of Music Director James Levine, 34, and Director of Production John Dexter, 52. They are men of skill and self-assurance, and when they succeed, as they did last winter with Berg's Lulu, they justify the Met's often advertised suggestion that to buy one of its tickets is to "strike a blow for civilization." When Levine and Dexter miss, they raise worries about the wisdom of dual artistic control. Last week's new production of Verdi's Rigoletto was about...
Died. Hampton Hawes, 48, jazz pianist and composer (All Night Session); of a brain hemorrhage; in Los Angeles. An effervescent, percussive keyboard stylist inspired by the bop artist Bud Powell, Hawes performed with many of the jazz greats, including Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon and Jimmy Garrison. Although Hawes became addicted to heroin during the 1950s, he kicked the habit and wrote about both his addiction and his music in his autobiography, Raise...
...early years, as up until 1905 Harvard took six out of nine national championships. Yale took the rest. After that, Yale became well-nigh invincible, winning nine consecutive intercollegiate championships. The great Eli golfers of there were John and Archie Reid. Ellis Knowles, Dudley Mudge, DeWitt Balch, Dexter Cummings, Rossiter Betts, Laddy McMohan and Jess Sweetser, who also played quarterback for the Blue...
Special Problem. Conductor James Levine and Stage Director John Dexter, the duo currently guiding the Met's artistic fortunes, have come up with a brilliant Lulu. Levine unravels Berg's intricate, absorbing twelve-tone score in an almost chamberistic way, keeping all voices and orchestral strands balanced and clearly audible, yet summoning up a kind of debauched expressionism when that is called...
...Dexter's task was equally difficult. Lulu is a walking, talking bundle of erotic radioactivity. Known in other places as Woman, Femme Fatale, the Temptress, she is a rough operatic equivalent of Don Giovanni. She consumes the men-and one lesbian-who love her, then is consumed by them and destroyed. She ends up as a streetwalker, and the final slash of the knife is delivered by none other than Jack the Ripper. Some stage directors choose to play up the trampy side of Lulu. Dexter has made her an innocent, totally unaware of the evil effect...