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Sixty-five years later, the good times are back for the Comedian Harmonists. A Broadway show about the group, Band in Berlin, and a Miramax film, The Harmonists (already a hit in Germany), both opened last week. Another show, Veronika, der Lenz ist da (named for one of its hits), has run in Berlin for more than a year. Barry Manilow is fine-tuning his own musical, Harmony, with an eye to a Broadway opening next year. Harmonist acolytes have paid the group tribute in concert and on compact disc in Germany, Britain and the U.S., where...
Band in Berlin, co-directed by Susan Feldman (who wrote the book) and Patricia Birch, wants you to sing and think as you leave the theater. A slide show with music, it mixes reminiscences of the last living Harmonist, Roman Cycowski (Herbert Rubens), with photos--flashed on screens behind the singers--of Hitler and some of the brilliant artists whose lives he disrupted. That the Nazis were bad is not news. What is news is the agility of the vocal ensemble Hudson Shad, which has long been singing the Comedian Harmonists' repertoire, and which brings the old tunes to witty...
Raphael is the representative of classic art. This does not mean that his subjects or even his conceptions were Greek, although some of them were, but that his method was classic. Everything in his work blends with its surroundings. He was a harmonist, a unity of many things. He established no special element in the Renaissance but he put together the best of everything in an inimitable way. His one weakness was in brush work, but this fault was universal in all artists of the period...
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