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...since his ill-fated arrival in 1950. At the age of ten, in Vienna. Gulda was impressed into a Hitler Youth group, and that was enough under the McCarran Internal Security Act to land him on Ellis Island. After a protest storm in the press Gulda finally played-to rave reviews-and took the next plane home. His political history cleared up, he later gave about 200 concerts on tours of the U.S., Europe and South America...
...Church. This contradiction has turned up in Menotti operas before (e.g., The Medium), in the shape of dramatic conflicts between some form of faith and reason. The theme is rousingly treated in Menotti's new opera, The Saint of Bleecker Street, which last week opened on Broadway to rave reviews. It is Menotti's most ambitious opera to date, and perhaps his best...
...music was, to many listeners, acrobatic, unyielding and overdissonant, hardly the kind of thing to herald a new performer. But the New York Times's Olin Downes published a rave. "The pianist who adequately performs the part needs endless strength, swiftness and must be something of a cyclone at the keyboard . . . Mr. Scarpini fulfilled the requirements ... a pianist of prodigious capacities . . . whirlwind virtuosity and rhythmic drive." The rest of the press agreed...
Cinnamon Sinner (Tony Bennett; Columbia). "She's got sugar-dipped kisses and cherry-tipped charms," warbles Tony hoarsely, and goes on to rave about the lady's other sweet-flavored assets...
...Streetcar and Waterfront. "Brando is just the best actor in the world today." Many experts agree. Not since John Barrymore first hauled on his buskins has a young actor's fire brought such a light to so many critics' eyes. Almost all his Broadway performances have won rave reviews ("our most memorable young actor"), and he has backed the cinema critics into the adjective bin. They have felt in Brando's acting a kind of abysmal reality that not even Barrymore, who in all technical respects was far and away Brando's superior, could plumb...