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...choral singing, presented a mixed program of sacred and secular music, not all of which was entirely suited to their voices. A set of madrigals early in the program came off particularly well, with good diction and full, robust tone, and a remarkable set composed by Carlo Gesualdo, a madman, was nearly as successful. The bizarre chromaticism of Gesualdo's music may reflect the turbulence of his even more unconventional private life--at age 30 he murdered his wife and her lover, and then finished off his infant daughter as well, on account of her uncertain paternity...
...between New York and his hometown of Asbury Park, New Jersey, and the music, at least the best of it, is suitable raucous and scruffy. Unlike his first album, Greetings from Asbury Park, where the descriptions bristled with enough Dylanesque alliteration to make them look like typing exercises ("Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat"), on E Street Springsteen works with an easy, economical sense of concreteness and colloquial ambience. He talks normal, only we should talk so good. The "E Street Shuffle" itself is a literal evocation of street-corner cacaphony, in which "Little...
Badlands is excellently cast. Sissy Spacek is a thoroughly convincing Holly, Martin Sheen a superb Kit. He makes him a shabby, landlocked buccaneer, a psychotic pirate. Sheen conveys Kit's craziness so effectively because he does not ever act the madman; he is, instead, a disturbed man trying to act sane...
...speaker is not a madman, nor is he running a fun house or shifting the population of a prison across a body of water. He is Chris Mahan, executive stage manager of the Metropolitan Opera, unwinding after a rehearsal of Berlioz's Les Troyens, the crown jewel in a season beset by financial and artistic problems. First performed last fall [TIME, Nov. 5], it is back again this month. The eleven performances are the first ever in New York City, and the work has been staged only twice previously...
...clairvoyant who phones the police and volunteers his psychic resources to help solve the killing. He relates certain details of the crime only the police chief knew. The chief is suspicious, but he calls Wills in. Throughout the remainder of the investigation, he remains uncertain whether Wills is a madman, a visionary, an opportunist-or perhaps the murderer...