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...Journey is unsatisfying Particular achievements, include "Open Up, Summertime," a jaunty ode to summer that wryly understates an oft-expressed continent: "Drop me in a sunny spot/I'd rather be hot than not," "Poem to Eat" combines Siemen's haunting, bittersweet music with an evocative Iyric by Pran Landesman; the singer hawks his verses: "Dine on a poem. Take one on home," "King Lear's Blues" tells of a man so broken-hearted he believes he is Lear, suicidal and yet paradoxically end, to have suffered, "Big city Traffic Jam" is a miniature concerto for piano and street sounds...
...colorful saloon called the Gaslight. The neighborhood then was a collection of seedy secondhand stores and a community of couldn't-care-less flat dwellers. Following the Mutrux brothers was self-styled "Environmental Engineer" Jimmy Massucci, who opened up another saloon, the Golden Eagle, near by; then Jay Landesman, whose Crystal Palace theater was operating farther downtown, decided to move his establishment into the neighborhood...
Last year this casbah of culture and whoopdedoo earned more than $3,000,000 for its investors, and property values have tripled over the last four years. A Gaslight Square Association has been set up, and Jay Landesman has been voted unofficial mayor of the quarter. Says Landesman grandly: "It means nothing. I'd rather be king...
...Nervous Set (book by Jay Landesman and Theodore J. Flicker; music by Tommy Wolf; lyrics by Fran Landesman) is a wry and indulgent spoof of the Beat Generation. The mood is mock-nihilistic. Instead of Waiting for Lefty, the hipsters of the '50s are waiting for Junkie (the dope peddler); in place of the prewar pacifism of Bury the Dead, the postwar passive-ists Dig the Bird (the late Saxophonist Charlie Parker). And, of course, boy meets girl...
...Neurotica was a quarterly put out by nonneurotic St. Louis Antique Dealer Jay Irving Landesman, 29. Said he: "Most of my friends are writers and artists and all of them are neurotic as hell. We decided there was a need for a magazine to explore the problems of the neurotic personality." Among the contributions were poems by Kenneth (Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer) Patchen and Conductor Leonard Bernstein (who called his poem Life Is Juicy). The lead article (by Londoner Rudolph Friedmann) began: "Getting married is the best way of taking regular exercise. In order to encourage his libido...