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...Cambridge Quartet will perform Handel's Lleheslfeden Walzer, Chavez' Three Nocturnes, Fine's Alice in Wonderland and solo quartets by Schubert, July 18, 8 p.m., M.I.T.'S HAYDEN COURTYARD...
...Handel's Lucrezia. MIT Chapel, Noon, May 18, Free...
...afternoon, then had Photographer Richard Avedon up to his Plaza Hotel suite for their second sitting (the first was 20 years ago, on the day Chaplin left America). Later he visited Gracie Mansion, where Mayor John V. Lindsay presented him with the city's highest cultural award, the Handel Medallion. "Smile!" yelled the photographers. "I'm afraid my teeth would fall out," cracked Chaplin, cupping a hand beneath his chin...
That probably is not the way the new RCA rock version of Handel's Messiah came into being-but one wonders. Rarely has so much conceit, commercial cynicism, bad taste, musical ignorance and all-round incompetence been brought together within the grooves of a single LP. Written and arranged by Producer David Axelrod (Electric Prunes), conducted by the jazz world's Cannonball Adderley, the RCA Messiah has something to offend everyone. For lovers of vocal style, there is singing that would not pass muster in the 1950s-parody group Sha-Na-Na. For devotees of pure rock, there...
...Handel will survive; so will Messiah. What Axelrod's work really brings to light is the fact that the sheep of the record industry are off and herding again. Not all of the new religious-rock LPs - the sons of Jesus Christ Superstar - are blatant ripoffs. Indeed, a few display genuine sincerity, even talent. But all of them, the best and the worst, demonstrate that Superstar Authors Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice do seem to have something of a monopoly on skill and taste in the field. Items...