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Offstage, Taj exudes the same warmth he generates when he performs. When I called him up from the lobby of the Hotel Lenox last week to confirm his room number, he good-naturedly answered the phone. "Arby's Chicken Palace!" As I entered his suite, he ruffled his bedspread into place, greeted me with a grin and handshake, lit some incense, sat down in a rocking chair while toying with a soccer ball, and began to talk and sometimes ramble, his verbiage interlaced with words like "cosmos" and "vibes...
...Kansas of The Wiz is as close to middle America as Harlem's Lenox Avenue at 125th Street. The show, with all new music and lyrics, is saucy with black urban humor. Its talk is jumping jivernacular, its walk is a big-city strut, its dances have a blowtorch frenzy, and its songs range from a warm gospel glow to the rock beat of a riveter mining asphalt...
...Manhattan. Great-granddaughter of John Wanamaker, pioneer department store merchandiser, she was a successful retailer in her own right. Twice divorced, she was reportedly undergoing treatment for alcoholism when she fell from the fifth floor of her Manhattan apartment two months ago, suffering numerous fractures. She was recovering in Lenox Hill Hospital when pneumonia...
...Serge Koussevitzky Centennial Day at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass., and the Boston Symphony Orchestra staged a celebration in honor of its late great conductor. Participants included Koussevitzky's most famous pupil, Leonard Bernstein, 55, who on doctors' orders conducted only two programs. Just three weeks before Lenny had been hospitalized in Bridgeport, Conn., suffering from a shortness of breath; no diagnosis of his illness has been made public. One music lover who stopped by at Tanglewood to give him a big hug: Joan Kennedy, recently returned from a rest and therapy session at Connecticut's Silver Hill...
Bonnie Raitt, another fine locally-produced musician, is playing with Mose Allison at the Music Inn in Lenox Saturday night. Raitt went to Radcliffe for a couple of years, left and learned how to play the blues, and is now a terrific singer and wailer. Allison is a cerebral and somewhat spacey jazzman, well-thought-of by the real cognoscenti...