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Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women all above-But to the girdle do the gods inherit Beneath is all the fiends 'There 'shell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench consumption; fie, fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. -King Lear...
...Symphony Hall, "The Saints" was the first encore, and everyone knew it would be the last song of the concert. Those who could fit in the remaining space in the aisles left their seats and pressed forward. Robinson danced around the stage, waving his white handkerchief, directing short oom-pah bursts at people in the front. Putting down his trombone, he lifted some little children onto the stage and danced around with them...
Blake needed no assisting rhythm section. The highly audible rat-tat-tat of his heels filled that bill. His technique is in the percussive, pedal-heavy ragtime tradition-bouncing, thump-pah bass and ornate, syncopated melody-but it is nonetheless astounding in its flawlessly striding left hand and daringly acrobatic right. Blake still practices two hours a day; he works so much on the eve of a concert that "I get sick of hearing myself." Midway through a delirious rendition of his brand-new Classical Rag, Blake cried out, "Aha, it sounds good...
...affair that looks as if it could land on the Sea of Tranquillity. The main walkway in the Olympic Park is more down to earth. Called Spielstrasse (Play Street), it is a kind of carnival midway with restaurant, beer garden, refreshment booths, street theaters, pantomimists, painters, puppet shows, oompah-pah bands in Lederhosen, folk dancing, and stands displaying such wares as Olympic dice ($1) and Olympic paperweights...
...with a work like Ernani, one of Verdi's least mature operas. As a tale of romance and intrigue among 16th century grandees, Ernani mostly creaks where it should crackle. As music, it is an example of early Verdi that too often comes out merely as early oompah-pah. That Bing succeeded at all merely proves his mastery of his craft...