Word: ests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COLOR ME BARBRA (Columbia). Carpers have claimed that the second Streisand TV special was overproduced, but it would take a real Barbraphobe to fault this album of songs from the show. From the soft-shoe shuffle of Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long to Non, C'Est Rien, Streisand's first venture into French, this record extends the image...
...suit with extra-long coat and high-rising pleated side vents. Cardin also likes slacks with colored stripes up the side, flowered dinner jackets, four-inch-high collars and square hats. It is not, he insists, an Edwardian look: "I never look backward. I design for tomorrow. N'est-ce pas, Nicole...
...accurate a capella performance of his Mass (1963) by the Glee Club and Choral Society was a pleasurable emotional experience as well as an impressive display of musicianship. Except for one clunker that occured when the singers failed to listen to each other on the Credo "passus et supultus est" and an octave became a major seventh, the Glee Clubs exhibited a professional command of the difficult intervals and harmonies. Unfortunately, the great energy that was consumed in singing the right notes left nothing for interpretation, and the resulting dynamic inflexibility diminished much of the emotional impact of the work...
...wave machine starts up, and to cries of "Quel bruit! Quelle flamme I'environe!", Neptune's pet sea-dragon emerges in a cloud of smoke. Hippolyte conveniently rushes in, is promptly swallowed (whole), and the scene ends with the chorus solemnly incanting, "O disgrace cruelle ... Hippolyte n'est plus." (Needless to say, the libretcist took his liberties with Rachine's Phedre; Paristans must have been pleased to find the evil Queen disappearing painlessly, and the goddess Diana bringing Hippolyte back to each, in her mechanical cloud, in the last...
...That Connolly excluded Huckleberry Finn and Henry Adams is justifiable: de gustibus non est disputandum. To exclude the major German, Russian and other European writers merely because, it appears, Connolly could not read them in the original is unpardonable. We might as well ignore the Bible because we cannot read it in the original Aramaic and Greek...