Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FESTIVAL (NET, 8-9 p.m.). "Nina Simone: The Sound of Soul" brings the special Simone sound to jazz, blues and folk music in her one-woman show...
...ebullient for a convalescent, a fact that troubled Allon, who recalled that his own father had been in especially high spirits just before he died. Eshkol scheduled a ministerial committee meeting for the next day, but in midmorning the Voice of Israel suddenly switched from advertising jingles to funeral music and Psalm readings and announced his death...
Realizing that I knew neither the sponsor, the destination, nor the purpose of the statement on academic freedom which I signed at Quincy House, I requested my name be withdrawn--though apparently too late to escape the CRIMSON ad of February 25. Ferdinand Gajewski Teaching Fellow in Music...
...repartee with one character emphatically commenting "You can say that again," and his buddy really saying it again. It was there all right, a little dressed up, but dismally there all the same. Of course part of the fun is scavenging--a line from Casablanca, a scene from The Music Man, a bit of police marching from Gilbert and Sullivan--why not run through the most cliched joke conventions as well. But the business of an amusing show is to amuse and author David Patterson's inability to deliver the great laugh makes one suspect that the bad ones...
Danny Troob's and John Forster's music is a splendid way to cover the script's sins. A good number of the songs sound the same, but it's a good sound and the repetitions are easy to forgive. Troob seems fascinated with a pattern of slow-lead-in, break into new, snappy meter, plant a long dance between the second and third verse. The best of them are straightforward satires--anemic Junior's self-discovery ("Number One and Only You") and a stay-away-from-sin number at the start of the Second Act ("You Can Be Celibate...