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Just to the left of the Metropolitan Opera, in a grassy glade surrounded by hedges and maples, free concerts by the Goldman Band are given at Damrosch Park on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8 p.m. The hottest tickets in town, however, remain those at the New York State Theater box office, where baleful balletomanes hang out trying to cadge freebies and spares to any performance by ex-Soviet Superstars Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov at the American Ballet Theater. Americans Gelsey Kirkland and Fernando Bujones trail only slightly behind. On Wednesday night, July 14, fancy footwork and aerial illusions...
...town's hottest club is the Bottom Line, in Greenwich Village (15 W. Fourth St.), where for a nominal admission ($5.50) some of rock's best talent is on view. During convention week, the management has booked a bunch of folkies-Eric Andersen, Livingston Taylor, Mary Travers, Tom Paxton -who will presumably regale visiting delegates with songs of chiding irony and social import. The Convention, a group of comic actors, will open each show with irreverent improvisations on the day's events at the Garden. Up in Central Park, the Schaefer Music Festival offers excellent, inexpensive...
...17th St.; $6 cover on weekends). At Barney Googles (225 E. 86th St.; $4 cover on weekend nights and free admission for women before 10 p.m.) you can hear both disco and highly spiced Latin music, called salsa. This blistering rhythm, Afro-Cuban in origin, is served up hottest at the Corso (205 E. 86th St.), where the dance floor gives you the chance for the sort of workout that could lead to an Olympic qualification...
...take chances and experiment with new material. Now it--like you, me, and everything else--has been coopted. WBCN is slick, commercial, and bland. Listening to it, you might think it was still 1969--Jimi and Janis live, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young are together, the Beatles are the hottest thing going. Occasionally there are high spots--Andrew Kopkind's commentary and the Liberation News Service among them--but generally it's pretty innocuous stuff. WCOZ at 95.5 is no better, no worse. The least pretentious station around is WCAS at 740 AM, which mixes country, soft rock, and folk...
Attempts to use real contemporary music in musicals-like Richard Lester's two Beatles movies or Ken Russell's Tommy-have been random. A Chorus Line, hottest ticket on Broadway and destined to be filmed, is just a slick version of 1930s tears-and-tinsel show biz sagas around which production numbers were draped like rented furs. The only enterprising recent musicals have been the work of Bob Fosse; the movie Cabaret and, on Broadway, Chicago abound in the same spunk and brash vi tality eulogized in That's Entertainment. Fosse is a brilliantly low-down spirit...