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Recently he sat at his dressing room piano after a rehearsal at the Met and sketched a bravado musical self-portrait with his favorite Strauss works. He struck a theme from Don Juan: an image for the dark, liquid eyes, flaring nostrils and smoldering visage that prompted one of his...
While it is a common practice for Governors to grant Christmastime reprieves, no one can remember the release of such a huge batch of prisoners at any one time.º Maddox, however, was so pleased by the success of his discharge of 147 teen-age inmates in September (only nine...
The jokes in Falstaff are foolproof because Verdi built the comic timing into the music. If the singers stick to the notes, they can't help but deliver the punchline faultlessly every time. Add to this the fact that any joke, no matter how hackneyed, quadruples in laugh-value the...
Boito's text is more like a score--attentive to rhythm, and the ability of rhythm to characterize and to conjure atmosphere. Like Shakespeare he writes word music; he has a head start, of course, writing in Italian. His verse is eminently singable. Boito also pulls together the woolly Merry...
Dancing with Daddy. The Exhibitionist is the story of a beautiful film star-Jet Merry Houseman, whose father is a fading movie idol. The plot is hardly original. Merry is an oversexed girl in search of herself, but she looks mostly in other people's beds. What she finds...