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...glittering crocus out of a chalice that somewhat resembles those silvered bowls in which hotels serve grapefruit. He departs crucified on a Daliesque golden triangle that is slowly projected toward the audience by a hidden cherrypicker lift. In Jesus' company come a sweetly sensuous, cheek-kissing Mary Magdalene, a quintet of Jewish high priests who call for a "final solution" to their Jesus problem, and King Herod?a queen in full drag. There is also the traitor Judas, played by a black whose considerable talent and limitless energy sometimes upstage Jesus. Clad in silver jockey shorts, Judas returns from...
...preached imaginative uses for leftovers, such as Armenian lamb pie made from roast leg of lamb. His books include Michael Field's Cooking School, Michael Field's Culinary Classics and Improvisations and All Manner of Food. With his wife, Frances, he wrote the TIME-LIFE book A Quintet of Cuisines...
...felt a change of scene, temperature and climate would be good for us." A tax maneuver? "There's nothing to be gained or lost by it," said 27-year-old Jagger, though several British tax experts insist that the move will have definite fiscal advantages for the quintet, which has earned many millions during the past nine years. The Stones are rumored to have already bought a villa near Cannes...
Another forgotten album in much the same style is Wayne Talbert's Houston Nickel Kicks (Mercury). Before cutting this record, Talbert, who looks like a fat, freaky ex-Marine, played piano for Mother Earth and the Sir Douglas Quintet, worked with Dr. John the Night Tripper, did the arrangements for Jimmy Cotton's best album ( Cut You Loose ), made two mediocre solo albums, and wrote a song entitled "Schizophrenic Susan Minnick," all of which should entitle him to some small fame, surely. This, his latest album, was a blatant attempt to get Talbert a hit single, which attempt, unfortunately, failed...
...good reason is that Ogdon is something of an out-of-the-way composer himself. His output already includes 20 works for piano, a string quartet and a brass quintet. His major effort so far is the Piano Concerto No. 1, a three-movement, 25-minute work that he performed brilliantly late last year before an enthusiastic audience in London's Royal Festival Hall. At Christmastime he recorded it for E.M.I, with the Royal Philharmonic under Conductor Lawrence Foster; Angel will be issuing it in the U.S. next fall...