Word: macke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become happy, lyrical jazz just before they turn irretrievably sour. The opera's overture--a sort of bitter chorale in which the saxophones seems to be playing Bach just a little out of tune--sets the mood, and then things really get underway with the Moritat, better known as "Mack the Knife." If you have only heard Mantovani versions, you can have no idea what bite this song has. Stephen Schmidt, the conductor, puts it across beautifully, although the band has an occasional ragged moment later...
Threepenny Opera. Music by Friedrich Weil, libretto by Bertoldt Brecht and production by Leverett House. It should be a winning combination. "Mack the Knife" is Richard Nixon's favorite song...
...Trucks should be off these streets--says who, says me," ten year old John Matthews told the gathering. A friend of his chimed in. "Is little kids are the ones that get missed up by the friggin Mack Trucks...
...part, McGovern met with the Women's Cancus yesterday in an attempt to hold its votes in line. He continues to press hard for the backing of the Mack lobby...
...eleven, he had memorized all 48 preludes and fugues of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and had played them in public. "I even had two flings at New York," he recalls: "Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour and the big Chopin competition of the Kosciuszko Foundation. I didn't play very well that day. They told me I had no technique and no promise and to go home...