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Just such intimacy between musicians and audiences once characterized performances of chamber music and was one of its greatest strengths. But the rapport was broken when chamber music moved into large concert halls, for which it was never intended. Four seasons ago, deciding that "Italy has gone through great decadence in chamber music," Menotti launched the midday series at Spoleto as a long-shot restorative. Each summer since, about 50 similarly dedicated instrumentalists and singers from abroad have turned up for the series on nothing more than Menotti's promise of bed and board. They have performed everything from...
...grey and his hands are speckled with age now. Heavy, stoop-shouldered, protected even from springtime by his muffler, he is a grandly Churchillian figure on the campus. His music is still spiced with youth and so are his interests: Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck built such a deep rapport with him that he named his son Darius, and Milhaud occasionally shocks prissy listeners by saying that good jazz can steal his attention from dull classics any time. His youthful spirit echoes especially in his lively Provencal wit. Hoping to end an argument with him, a student once pleaded, "Doesn...
...been said that I am not able to move people to tears or excitement. Quite probably that is true." Unwilling to make hard, unqualified statements, ill at ease in the glare of klieg lights when he mounted a platform, quick and most effective in small groups, Pearson established little rapport with the voters, often projected a sense of thoughtful indecision. "The thing that terrifies me is demagoguery," he said. "The hoopla, the circus part of it, all that sort of thing still makes me blush...
...acting, against a backdrop of Old Flame Dirk Bogarde's flexing jaw muscles and travelogue shots of Olde England, may be the best of her career. The most revealing scenes are onstage at the Palladium. On opening night she stands in the wings, fingers snapping, as her rapport with the orchestra becomes almost physical; then with a final cry of "Go!" she struts into the spotlight and begins to sing. If the Judy who once stole Andy Hardy's heart is gone somewhere over a rainbow of hard knocks and sleeping pills, Garland the actress seems here...
...love?" sings a disillusioned Aznavour husband. "I gaze at you in sheer despair and see your mother standing there." Other songs deal with fading Don Juans, wifely nagging, and Who Gets Lolita When Humbert Humbert Dies? "I have no intellectual colleagues," Aznavour says from his artistic pinnacle, "but my rapport is with everyone...