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...touring members: saxophonist/flutist Chris White and the above-mentioned Sonni. White has a good sense of when to play dirty and when to play clean, a sense of controlled mistake that this group of mostly Brits definitely needs. Also, he has a nice habit of walking over the grand piano to get to the other side of the stage. Sonni gives the ax men their mobility, inciting bassist John Illsey to dance and Knopfler to smile, while slipping in some pretty nice guitar licks himself...
...script is not Close's only problem here. She is also grossly miscast. She is by far too wholesome and maternal looking to be convincingly sexy as Maxie. In The Natural, she was an angel; in Garp, she was immaculately conceived. Thus, when Close slinks around a piano cooing "Bye Bye Blackbird," it's kind of disturbing, like watching your mother do a striptease...
Arnold Steinhardt, violin, and Virginia Eskin, piano: Harvard's Gardner Museum...
Richard Goode, piano, Harvard's Garner Museum...
Faculty Recital: Joan Heller, Soprano, Terry Decima, piano. Works of Schubert, Faure, Britten and Elizabeth Lutyens. Concert Hall, Boston University...