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...When Joey Alfidi was forbidden to play any more rock 'n' roll, the boy concentrated on Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. The longhairs paid off. This week, at the age of seven, Joey took over Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, led the Symphony of the Air (formerly Toscanini's NBC Symphony) in a full-scale program including Mozart's Figaro overture, Beethoven's Fifth and Haydn's Surprise symphonies. His gestures were incisive, particularly in the extreme loud and soft passages; obviously he had learned his scores by heart-no timpanist could miss his cannonball...
...answer is the same for Joey as it has been for child prodigies from Mozart on: parental push. Joey's father, Frank Alfidi, a Yonkers, N.Y. accordion teacher, gave his son a specially built accordion when he was eleven months old. Within a few years the boy was playing kettledrums, the vibraphone, piano and, by some tall stretching, string bass. He went on to play in his school orchestra, where the going was rough. "They're not good enough for him," said Papa. Joey complained that his friends are not interested in his conducting. "There...
...Broadway Porter, You're the Top was breezy, beautiful, and one of the biggest-budgeted ($250,000) live shows in TV history. A baker's dozen of high-priced Hollywood musical stylists served up a mishmash of 24 musical numbers, stylishly staged by Broadway Choreographer Robert (Pal Joey) Alton...
Lost in an Igloo. They made an odd pair. They called each other "Joey"-the Australian word for an infant kangaroo-but there was never doubt as to who was in whose pouch. Perles used to put his name to Miller's early essays for the feature page of the Chicago Tribune-possibly the strangest newspaper collaboration since Marx used to sign Engels' pieces for the New York Tribune. Perles set Miller up to meals and a hotel room, and thus, Perles announces grandly, "the stage was set for the Tropic of Cancer...
Embarrassing Riches. Joey on the Goodyear TV Playhouse was more in the classic TV tradition: a small story about an insecure boy, sensitively seen by Author Louis Peterson, and performed with wit and understanding by talented Kim Stanley and Newcomer Anthony Perkins, whose Lincolnesque good looks are certain to bring him offers from Hollywood...