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...perform such music, the player must have a flawless ability to shape the form, then a knack for making embellishments sound both natural and exciting. Kipnis has both these talents in abundance. Indeed, it is doubtful whether any harpsichordist now performing can match his particular combination of formal restraint, interpretive flair and sheer energy. Certainly that was the case last week as Kipnis made a successful New York Philharmonic debut playing two diverse works under Conductor Pierre Boulez-Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and Falla's Harpsichord Concerto...
...times Creamer defends the Babe by pitting hospital appearances against callousness towards young fans, and interspersing charitable gestures with overwhelmingly wretched extravagance. But when he is through juggling, Ruth still comes out looking like something of a jerk. Sure, Creamer's case for Ruth as a great star is flawless, but in the end Creamer runs out of intimates confiding that Ruth really was the great man he was supposed to be. Ruth's life was colorful, but sportswriters blew it out of proportion. When he quipped that he deserved more money than Hoover in 1930 because...
SCAPINO. The incredibly nimble Jim Dale joins that select pantheon of comic agility, men like Bobby Clark, Bert Lahr, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, who clowned in flawless body English...
Mozart's Second Horn Concerto is a thematically and harmonically uninteresting work, and soloist Charles Kavaloski--principal horn with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and HRO alumnus--did nothing to liven it up. His tone and pitch were flawless, but his interpretation was deadpan and uninspired. The third movement is written as a spirited march, but Kavaloski played it like an exercise and looked as though the monotony of it all were putting him to sleep. "Iberia" is too flashy and difficult a work to do justice to at 1 a.m. It was the only truly entertaining work on the program...
...They all want to be actors." Shaffer knows that audience viscerally. In this respect he resembles Noël Coward and Terence Rattigan, both of whom managed to write hits about such then queasy subjects as drug addiction (The Vortex) and homosexuality (Ross). Like them, Shaffer possesses an apparently flawless intuition about how much he can shock the audience without turning it off. Coming from a nation that reveres horses, he shrewdly placed a completely nude love scene-which might otherwise have caused a fuss-just before the boy's outrage on the horses. He also...