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Eric Martin's set was the only evidence that someone had thought about the play. The stage is an enormous disk, tilted toward the audience and partly surrounded by a cyclorama, on which is projected a series of wonderfully evocative slides. I have never seen, on any amateur stage, such a beautiful and effective set; I have never seen, anywhere, such disparity between the stage and the staging. The blocking, the lighting, the choreography, the props--all were designed for a rectangular stage, and not very imaginatively designed at that. And the monotonous drone of the music--the same...
Still, jazz survived. Smuggled U.S. recordings were duplicated on X-ray plates, bootlegged for fantastic prices (tab for an Elvis Presley disk: $12.50). Musicians copied new Louis Armstrong arrangements from Western radio programs. Students begged visiting U.S. musicians to play rock 'n' roll. Clandestine jazz bands became so common in Leningrad that the Young Communist League formed roving ''Nightingale Patrols" to stamp them...
Warm Sound. Although Leontyne Price was familiar to Manhattan audiences as a concert and disk performer, she stepped on the operatic stage wrapped mainly in a glittering European reputation. Regally got up in golden headdress and pearl-spattered green gown, she floated onto a moonlit stage in the second scene of Act I and filled the house with warm and lustrous sound in her beautiful aria Tacea la notte. With a fine economy of gesture and movement throughout the long evening, she acted a passionate Leonora...
...crowd downstairs cheered more wildly at every Nixon rally, shook the hall with shouts of "We want Nixon." Campaign Chairman Leonard Hall assured all that "this one would be a squeaker." "Who are you going to believe," asked one worker, "those damned lying machines or good old Ike?" Disk Jockey Johnny Grant went to the microphone and bellowed: "Look, this is not a wake. We are not losing, and we are not going to lose." Hope died hard-but by 10 p.m. Pacific time, the somber recognition that victory was getting beyond reach hit the Nixon crowd. Almost...
...Nashville, Tenn., sit the song peddlers. Their product, proclaimed in gilt letters on the door, is variously billed as "Wonder Music" or "Surefire Music" or "Tenn-Tex Music," but in the industry it is known simply as C. & W. Country and Western. Last week, to the planeloads of disk jockeys descending on Nashville for the ninth annual National Country Music Festival, C. & W. seemed surefire indeed. Its demise has often seemed near, but it is now going stronger than ever, and Nashville has even nosed out Hollywood as the nation's second biggest (after New York) record-producing center...