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Raymonda, as revised and presented last week by Leningrad's Kirov Ballet at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, makes no more sense. There's still the wicked Saracen and the noble Hungarian knight named Jean de Brienne, a duel, an attempted abduction, a wed ding, Spanish and Moorish dances, and of course the maiden Raymonda herself...
...Unearthed. Pre-Bach compositions, Greenberg insists, are "not little delicate museum pieces. This was music of an exciting time, full of violent contrasts." The Tanglewood program presented by Pro Musica ranged from the solemn Lamentations of Jeremiah to the sprightly "hey ding a ding" of It Was a Lover and His Lass, an exquisitely chiseled duologue for recorder and flute, a blatantly comic Tobacco Is Like Love, and a spirited London Street Cries, alive with the calls of street vendors and town criers...
...Mytho, 35 miles southwest of Saigon, Minh graduated from a lycée run by the French, in 1940 enlisted in the French colonial army and was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant. He spent most of World War II serving under a Vichy colonial administration that did the bid ding of the Japanese invaders. But in March 1945, when Vichy surrendered the French colony to the Japanese outright, Minh joined a band of defiant, lower-echelon soldiers who organized heroic but futile resistance to the capitulation. Minh was taken prisoner by the Japanese, beaten and tortured by having most...
Little Me. Seven helpings of Sid Caesar make this show a rich musical comedy feast. Other goodies include Swen Swenson's dancing and Virginia Martin's ding-dong Belle Poitrine...
...Pierre Monteux, 88, but it was not for a flawless interpretation of Beethoven's Ninth. In Britain to conduct the London Symphony, the former leader of the San Francisco Symphony took time out to realize a boyhood dream-donning a dandy fireman's hat and watching a ding-dong drill put on by the London Fire Brigade. The maestro loves to boast: "In my home town, Hancock, Maine, I built them a depot and bought an engine, and the population is only 400, so I guess I'm chief of the smallest fire department in America...