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...President of the U.S. entered by a side door, the organ played My Country, 'Tis of Thee. The modernistic, brick and glass First Baptist Church of Bonham, Texas, was full. John Kennedy took his place in a second-row pew, beside former Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman, and next to Vice President Lyndon Johnson...
Happily, operatic tradition and the difficulties of musical presentation excuse such a trite plot. At the same time they also obscured several of Mr. Smith's funny lines. Obfuscation failed to overcome the genuine slapstick in the organ scene of the first...
...story of Command Performance stems from Queen Elizabeth's negotiations during 1599 and 1600 with the Sultan of Turkey. The basic facts are historical: the Queen actually did send the Sultan a fabulous, animated Baroque organ under the guidance of a court musician from Lancashire, and England's trading power in the East did at that point increase. Mr. Smith has, on his own, made the musician, Jack Wilton (Robert Trehy), fall in love with a lady of the court. Queen Elizabeth (Blanche Thebom) ships Wilton off to Turkey to avoid permitting a misalliance with his inamorata Lady Anne (Doris...
Also perfectly cast was James Billings as the meek and harried organ builder...
Initially, the six woman chorus seemed musically uncoordinated. The chorus's military maneuvers of the middle acts seemed little removed from bumps and grinds. (Fortunately, no one in the audience seemed to notice that in his ecstasy over the organ music, the Sultan was dancing the stroll...