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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week the group had raised some $60,000-none of which had yet been spent. Millionaire Percy himself could not have touched the money, nor would he want to. Yet many critics, including the Chicago Sun-Times, persisted in demanding that Percy name the contributors to his fund. He declined to do so, since some prominent Democrats were on the list, and might have been embarrassed by the disclosure. Embarrassed himself by the unfavorable publicity his fund has attracted, Percy finally decided to chuck the fund and finance office operations from his own resources...
...peeked out between the curtains at the overflow audience in Carnegie Hall and whispered: "I feel like a whore in church." That was the night that Benny Goodman's big band first brought jazz to the concert hall, and in memory of the occasion Benny got the old group together last week for an evening of dinner-and-jam at his Manhattan apartment. Some of the boys -James, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Trombonist Red Ballard-were tied up elsewhere, but 14 of the original 26 made it, including Drummer Gene Krupa, Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, Pianist Jess Stacy and Singer Martha...
...dressing in men's clothes, inexplicable in the original, fits in quite naturally with the mod look; she and her brother Sebastian wear identical outfits of zippered yellow tunics and rust trousers, and of course their moptops are the same length. The updated plot involves a singing group known as the Apocalypse, one member of which has just been drafted. Viola, calling herself Charlie, fills in for him; when Orsino, here known as Orson, feels himself falling in love with what he assumes is a boy, he consults a psychology book to read up on latent homosexuality...
...does today. The British renaissance, which began half a century ago with Elgar and Vaughan Williams and continued with Walton and Britten, is currently upheld by a coterie of younger talents whose work is now beginning to make a worldwide noise. One of the most promising of the group and by far the best known, 31-year...
Londoner Bennett is one of a group of young Britons who have been touched, but not pushed over, by the twelve-tone style of Pierre Boulez, with whom he studied for a time. Mines, commissioned by Sadler's Wells and first performed there three years ago, partakes of some of the near-physical brutality associated with the twelve-tone style. Its story is a gothic horror tale: a trio of scoundrels murder an old man and are then brought to penance by a troupe of plague-infected actors who may or may not be ghosts. "I wanted to write...