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...denied. "Vahevela," introduced as "the three day version," followed, song draws on the increasingly popular music of the West Indies. The considerably extended stage version exploits the rhythms of the West Indies in a long purely percussive break, anchored by Mexsina's chopped chords played through a wah-wah pedal, and numerous straight percussion. Al Garth followed with a fiddle break break that was equal parts acid guitar solo and pure country fiddle. Messina's lyrical wah-wah solo took the song...
...girls in pedal pushers and curler rolls who once listened to Elvis are now pushing 35 or 40, and the ducktailed boys of the '50s no longer have grease in their hair-if they have hair at all. Elvis, however, still sounds and looks almost like 1957. His hair, to be sure, is a little less shiny, and the famous Presley pout, an expression of his nearly platonic narcissism, has been replaced by the genial smile of acceptance and affluence. After 32 movies and untold millions in box-office receipts and record sales, Elvis at 37 is in many...
...pastiche of early '50s rock, rarely approaching the authentic inanity of the originals. But it is exquisite and excruciating in its details, from the boys' ducktail haircuts, leather jackets and cool, hang-loose slouches to the girls' cinch belts, nylon blouses, ballet slippers with white socks, pedal pushers and black gang jackets with their insignia, The Pink Ladies, pink-embroidered on their backs...
...last work of the evening. Thomas Morley's Service for the Burial of the Dead, the singers were well warmed up. Their diction was excellent and the large intervals between soprano and bass--which put a premium on faithful pitch--were negotiated readily. The beautiful ending with an inverted pedal point was almost ruined by some muddy lower parts, but the total effect was of great majesty and quietude...
...opening shot, that De Sica is dealing here with the upper-classes, not the population of Rome's slums. Upon the invitation of the Jewish-aristocrat Finzi-Continis, they are on their way to play tennis on the courts in the family's garden. As they pedal through the gates they leave the real world behind. True to the De Sica tradition, the action for the most part takes place apart from developments like war outside the smaller universe of human emotions the director builds for his story. The tennis players, most of them Jews, are welcomed into the grounds...