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...great. I have to work towards it." I left him to his practising and in the hall bumped into a member of the Music Department. "You were in there with Ronan Lefkowitz!" he gushed. "Ah, When Ronan first arrived here he was a good fiddler. There was promise glaring through every note he played, but he was just a good fiddler. But now--what a beautiful violinist...
...apply Copernican tenets to his casting. Galileo, who ought to be the radiant center of this dramatic universe, is so insubstantially summoned up by Topol that he is outshone and outdone by the secondary heavenly bodies. He seems to revolve around them. Topol, who last loped in Fiddler on the Roof, has a sort of toothy ingenuousness that gives Galileo an unfortunate puppy-dog quality. Topol misses the role's strength, both in character and intellect. Most of the actors around him, however, are superb: John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Edward Fox, Patrick Magee, John McEnery...
Radish Feast. Today Chase is bombarded with announcements from obscure trade groups and societies anxious to list events along the lines of the Old Fiddler's Reunion, the Muzzle Loaders festival, or the Feast of the Radishes. Occasionally he runs into troublesome sources like Cartoonist Al Capp, who insists that " 'Sadie Hawkins Day' comes whenever I say it comes in November." Because of Capp's unpredictability, Chase has had to drop the day from his publication. He also has problems with the promoters of National Procrastination Week. Their listing routinely arrives a week or so after...
...easy to sympathize with his ambivalence. There's something seductive about big, flashy star-studded musicals with lots of dancing and songs that you sing to yourself on the way out of the theater--Damn Yankees, West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum, Fiddler on the Roof, the shows that made Prince famous in the fifties and sixties. But at the same time, there's a nagging feeling that all this display is not really "art," that it's all contrived and calculated for the sole purpose of making money...
...building up a coherent strain of his own in the band's music. It ran through "Revival" and into "Blue Skies" and when Duane was killed broke out into the album Brothers and Sisters with "Ramblin' Man" and "Jessica" and "Pony Boy." For his solo album he picked up fiddler Vassar Clements (the best) and an old pedal steel player of Dolly Parton's, and some of the Allmans, to produce Highway Call. All together it's the finest collection of road music--sounds to drive by, preferably for long distances--ever assembled...