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...Garbo has a man made such searing love with a lens. Godard's camera never lets the girl out of its sight. It circles her endlessly, kisses her hands, caresses her shoulders, brushes her lips and her hair, turns all at once to feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes...
...peerless master of French jazz, and everywhere in Europe he is greeted like a visiting professor. But when he arrived in Manhattan for his American debut, his boat docked in a puddle of regulations. Not a word could be said of him until the clerks had had their day. When Union Card, Cabaret Card, and Social Security Card had legalized his presence at last, and the cognoscenti heard that Martial Solal was playing the piano at the Hickory House, the coolest ones dropped everything to go and hear...
Bernstein has shown a great flexibility and responsiveness to new programming ideas, and under him the New York Philharmonic has achieved a mastery of modern music, though Bernstein's approach to the classics is sometimes willful and distorted. The brass section is peerless, and the whole orchestra plays with exhilaration and drive. "My objection to some of the big orchestras in this country,'' Bernstein says, "is that they always sound like the X or the Y orchestra. The point in giving concerts is not to present an orchestra's sound but a composer's sound...
Head & Heart. When Crespin made her Met debut last fall, a critical audience was as startled by her temerity as it was pleased by her voice. Lehmann herself-the peerless Marschallin-had returned at 74 to coach the new singer, but Crespin clearly had ideas of her own. "We have met an impasse," Crespin said, then went onstage to offer a compromise interpretation of the role that even Lehmann had to admire. True to her introspective notion of Strauss's aging princess, Crespin sang the first act at fingertip touch, hiding her immense voice behind a melancholy that...
...find suitable high schools for his peerless products is a problem that Roeper hopes to solve by building his own, if he can raise the money. How to keep them from becoming snobs is less of a problem. All "elite" notions are sternly repressed. "We make a clear separation between human values and skills," says Roeper. "The child learns that just because he's a whiz in math, he doesn't get two votes in student elections. We want them to know their place in society...