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Although the "new casualness" evinced by the President's Levi's-and-sweater wardrobe may convince some that Carter is a man of little pretention, others are equally certain that the peanut farmer's meteoric rise from obscurity to prominence has resulted in a "Messiah complex" of apocalyptic proportions. However, whether or not Carter's hotline really connects to some higher world than Moscow is still an open question...
There are, perhaps forgivably, some dancers who eventually come to view the show about as charitably as a harpsichordist girding for his umpty-umpth Messiah. A child might think it sheer bliss to be able to perform The Waltz of the Snowflakes. Says Vassilie Trunoff, ballet master of the London Festival Ballet: "I call it The Dance of the Cornflakes' because we've got corns on our feet from dancing it so often." There are few major dancers or choreographers whose careers have not crossed that of Herr Drosselmeyer, Marie (or Clara, as she is sometimes known...
...Handel, Messiah: Soprano Elly Ameling, Contralto Anna Reynolds, Tenor Philip Langridge, Bass Gwynne Howell; Academy and Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner conducting (3 LPs, Argo). This is a masterly lesson in the art of making a familiar classic sound fresh and spontaneous. Marriner's authentically baroque phrasings, rhythms and instrumentations have much to do with that. So does his seemingly effortless ability simply to make music sing...
...benefited the HRO. The first, paradoxically, resulted from the difficulty of HRO's December season. (In addition to the concert on Saturday evening, HRO will collaborate on December 11 and 12 with the Harvard Glee Club, Collegium Musicum, and the Radcliffe Choral Society in a performance of Handel's Messiah.) The amount of rehearsal time needed for both these events necessitated HRO's fielding a less than full-size orchestra on Saturday. The resulting sound, while somewhat lighter and more restrained than usual, was unusually clear and coherent...
...tions of Islamic tradition or Zionist his tory are comparable to the great riffs and turbulences of his novels. But the Middle East, no matter how bizarre, is not fictive, and in the end its complex ity forces Bellow to quote the urgent pas sage in Handel's Messiah: "Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do the peoples imagine a vain thing?" With the positing of that query, Bellow acknowledges that in the terri tory he has examined there are no easy answers. Indeed, there may be no answers at all - only questions. Still...