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MAME may not get an oooh! for originality, but it certainly makes the grade as a musical ornament on the Broadway branches. Angela Lansbury is the twinkling star at the top of the tree...
...polished Italian boots, won 45 percent of the vote in California's seventh district in the June primary election. Since then, he has been quizzed about how it happened, and urged to run for the U.S. Senate or at least the Berkeley City Council; he has also become an ornament for the New Left...
Nelson A. Rockefeller has been a good governor of New York for eight years. He has demanded stringent air and water pollution control programs, and fought a recalcitrant state legislature to get appropriations for secondary and elementary education. The expanding, high-quality State University of New York is an ornament of his tenure, and may one day rival California's in size and excellence...
...passionate champion of the harpsichord: he adds to flawless technique a virile attack and a vital conviction that the literature of an obsolete instrument can still be exciting music. Here he plays oddments by Frescobaldi, Galuppi, Pasquini, Rossi and Cimarosa-who wrote when the harpsichord was the highest ornament of Renaissance sensibility. Most elegant of all is Scarlatti's Toccata in D Minor, the last movement of which consists of 29 florid variations on an old Italian theme, tossed aloft by Kipnis like fireworks into the night...
...Venetian composer Antonio Caldara (1670-1736), is a showpiece cantata for four sopranos. It was commissioned by Archduchess Maria Theresa (later Empress of Austria) and performed at court by her and her sisters. The ladies must have minded their singing master to negotiate the runs and trills that ornament this gay, witty music about four bored young damsels desultorily playing cards and wishing that both their hands and their suitors were more exciting. The soloists and orchestra of the Societàa Cameristica di Lugano have just the right light touch for this delightful record...