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When West Side Story opened on Broadway almost 23 years ago, it was greeted as a revolutionary show. Its subject, New York street gangs, was far more adventurous than the typical fluff of musicals; its language was tough and its ending downbeat. This month, when West Side returned in a hit revival, audiences and critics were not so much shocked as charmed; the show's story, language and sociological concerns now belong to a distant, tamer era. Yet one aspect of the production looks as daring today as it did in 1957: Jerome Robbins' choreography. When the rival...
...Drummer Kenny Jones hit the downbeat. John Entwistle ran out a bass line as strong as a backbone. Roger Daltrey strutted and sang, and Pete Townshend, leaping, launched them all into Substitute. At that opening moment last week, The Who set new standards, redeemed old promises and put a few ghosts to rest. These concerts may become not only one of the seminal rock events of 1979 but a route dynamited into the new decade...
Despite these downbeat reports, the Dow Jones industrials revived at week's end, rose seven points on Friday and closed at 874. Amid the glum news, market analysts and money managers are increasingly confident that a new and sustained bull market is shaping up. Reports TIME Correspondent John Tompkins from Wall Street: "The mood is in the air, palpable, something you can feel. To be sure, there are some well-known bears who still radiate gloom and even a couple of bulls who have turned bearish. But the consensus is that no matter how bad things look in Washington...
WITH COVER STORIES in both Downbeat and Musician and a new album (NiceGuys) on ECM--the label that has successfully promoted the likes of Keith Jarrett and Pat Methaney--the AEC is riding a new crest of public interest and acceptance. But as Lester Bowie comments, there has always been a receptive audience for the group's work, and the size of that audience is of no great consequence. The music which so excites critics today is essentially unchanged since the days when the Art Ensemble played for groups of ten or fifteen devotees back in Chicago. Through years...
About halfway through the movie, one begins to wish he were. The point of Quintet, it becomes painfully clear, is not nearly so obscure or weighty or downbeat as the director would have us believe. Altman is coming out foursquare in favor of life over death, love over hate, free will over fate. Though such optimistic feelings are admirable, there is no legitimate reason to cloak them in the arty mannerisms of yesteryear's avantgarde. Quintet has more highfalutin dialogue, pregnant pauses and overbearing symbols than the collected works of Maxwell Anderson; it has roughly as much content...