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Just eleven months ago, Rocker Jordan Christopher, 25, had to stand up there and howl with the rest of the Wild Ones. But ever since he married the boss, Sybil Burton Christopher, 37, Jordan has been privileged to sit around her Manhattan bedlam, Arthur, and admire the plangent din. Last week the Wild Ones were wilder than usual as the ridiculously successful joint celebrated its first anniversary. Jordan and Sybil sliced into a birthday cake to the cheers of such music lovers as Leonard Bernstein and Disk Jockey Murray the K, who kept trying to discuss esthetics above the entertainment...
...joint will feature an art gallery, a color-TV lounge, a little boutique selling hippies' clothes from London's Carnaby Street and three loud, plangent go-go bands. Cheetah, a "center of happenings" opening this month on Broadway, ought to be a great spot for mods to rock in. Yet the co-partner financing the fun house will probably never frug there. "I seldom go to discothèques," explains Entrepreneur Borden Stevenson, 33. "This is a business investment." Then he brightened a bit when he thought of his late father, Adlai Stevenson. "I'm sorry...
...pieces by the dozen. Among them are chamber works by Ned Rorem and Elliott Carter, both contrasting the tangy harpsichord with bland woodwinds. Rorem strings together short, romantic "songs without words," while Carter builds a severe, towering structure out of tiny musical blocks. Highlight of the recording is the plangent Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Cello by Manuel de Falla...
...superb musical instrument. The Los Angeles Philharmonic's brilliant young (28) Indian conductor, Zubin Mehta, showed the acoustics off with one of Respighi's chiaroscuro set pieces called Feste Romane, whose chief virtue is that it includes the most delicate pianissimos as well as the most plangent brass. The sweeping gold acoustical canopy carried the sound, clear and unblurred, to the furthest seat. And when Violinist Jascha Heifetz joined the orchestra in Beethoven's Concerto in D Major, every member of the audience could feel himself the epicenter of the soaring sound...
...matters sexual, according to Miss Sontag, Camp goes against the grain, cherishing either the androgynous, swoony girl-boys and boy-girls of pre-Raphaelite painting or the plangent supersexiness of Jayne Mansfield or Victor Mature. In art, Camp's exaggeration must proceed from passion and naiveté. "When something is just bad (rather than Camp)," she writes "it's often because the artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish. 'It's too much,' 'It's fantastic,' 'It's not to be believed,' are standard phrases...