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IMPERIAL-CAESAR, by Rex Warner (393 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $5), recalls the fact that, perhaps because he campaigned on their island in 55-54 B.C., British writers have been markedly fond of Julius Caesar. From Shakespeare to Shaw, they have drawn a quasi-Churchil-lian portrait of the Roman dictator-arrogant and domineering on occasion, but indomitable in adversity, magnanimous in victory, farsighted in policy. British Author Rex Warner, an old hand at translating Caesar, has set out to fictionize him. In doing so, he carries fondness a step farther and tries to quash the lingering suspicion that Caesar...
...Punch Opera in Manhattan, was a fragile piece of Hawthorne about two little girls whose snowman comes to life and entertains them until grownups drag him indoors and he melts to a puddle by the firelight of reality. Composer Rorem, who now lives in Paris, wields his Ravel-lian style with an almost too delicate hand. But he is, at 32, a master writer for the human voice...
...ETATS-UNIS, said the headline in Paris' Combat. French zazous (pure-jazz bugs) who think of the U.S. as a land paved with Louis Armstrongs and Sidney Bechets got a depressing firsthand report on the "crisis," far from new, of U.S. jazz. Wrote French Bandleader Jacques Hélian...
Inquiring around, Hélian also found that "in general the American public isn't much interested in bop and progressive jazz . . . The famous Bop City on Broadway is closed up ... I met Stan Kenton and listened to him one whole night . . . Kenton has abandoned his own style* and is playing dance music to keep his orchestra together and alive ... He said, 'You're lucky [in France], You can play jazz. The public understands...
...minute," wrote Hélian, "I could hardly believe my ears. Then I had to explain to him that we were a French dance orchestra [not a jazz orchestra]. The public, I had to explain, is the same everywhere. The true initiates are rare...