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Make Someone Happy (Moodsville) blends the lyric charm of Coleman Hawkins' ancient saxophone with an almost perfect rhythm section: Tommy Flanagan, piano; Major Holey, bass; and Eddie Locke, drums. The result is indeed happy, proving, as it does, that The Hawk is still a master of the mellow, a professor of the placid...
...leader. Among new recordings, three of the best have one thing in common: Flanagan's uplifting presence. On Moodsville's Make Someone Happy, he is the artful tailor who sews up the holes in Coleman Hawkins' aged zoot suit; on Columbia's "Jem," he makes lyric corsages and pins them all on Gerry Mulligan; and on Riverside's new adventure with...
...production of Die Meistersinger, and should have won a pocketful of raves. In the demanding role, his voice soared in steady flight above the stentorian heaviness of the Wagnerian orchestra: after the ardors of two long acts, he still had a great reservoir of lyric beauty left for the Prize Song that finishes the performance-and finishes the pretensions of a good many tyro tenors with it. A big (6 ft. 3 in.) and muscular South Dakotan, Thomas may well be the Heldentenor grand opera has awaited since Melchior...
...morass of tedium. At the close of the Prologue near the beginning, An Actor strikingly initiates the change from major to minor; the orchestra follows. The hamming of Satan, Lucifer, and Astaroth in the Inferno and in Hell provides a pleasant relief, and the Virgin Mary has a delightful lyric song in Bethlehem in Part II ("My God, my sweet King...
Creeping Splits. Previews, Inc.'s effort has conservationists, swamp lovers, hunters and bird watchers so mad they could swat a lepidoptera. They are lyric in their descriptions of the Great Dismal Swamp as a primeval forest of peat bog, cypress and juniper trees, of diaphanous curtains of Spanish moss, of copperhead and rattlesnake, bear, deer and mink, and of quicksand. The swamp once covered 1,500 sq. mi. But modern civilization's bulldozers have cut it down to some 600 sq. mi. Now even to the Great Dismal Swamp comes the forward tread of split-levelism...