Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foss and his group of composer-performers, known as the Improvisation Chamber Ensemble, appeared at Carnegie Hall last week with the visiting Philadelphia Orchestra to display their technique in somewhat elaborated form. Their scheduled piece, certainly the oddest they have yet attempted, was titled Concerto for Improvising Solo Instruments and Orchestra. Pianist Foss and his men-flute, cello, clarinet and percussion-were ranged downstage in front of the orchestra, and Conductor Eugene Ormandy only rarely cast a nervous backward glance at them...
...less intriguing than the titles. Typical Ellingtoniana, when he tries for concert length, it called for extensive improvisation by the band, was liberally laced with the subtle tone colors, the shifting moods that Ellington too often uses as a substitute for invention. High point was a lovely, fluid violin solo by Ray Nance that brought cries of "No, no!" from an audience that did not want it to end. Said Ellington in explanation of one part of his piece: "It has not only to do with changing of the colors and the octopi, but the people in the story...
...Manhattan's City Center, Marcel Marceau was for half the evening the superb solo mime he had proved before; in the second half, introducing his famous Compagnie de Mime, he performed movingly in a "mimodrama" of Gogol's The Overcoat. This igth century tale of an out-at-elbows clerk who for years toils obsessively to own a fine overcoat only, after an intoxicated moment of triumph, to be robbed of it, is one of literature's most surcharged parables, often with meanings beyond words. And without words Marceau at times approached those meanings as-against...
...checked by a psychiatrist, who reported "nothing much in the way of abnormalities." Chichester's only complaints were that he was four days out of beer, three days out of whisky, and his velvet smoking jacket was mildewed. Told that he had broken the British-U.S. Atlantic solo crossing record by 16 days, weary Mapmaker Chichester bussed his wife (who had come over by liner) and embraced a glass of champagne. "Normally," he mused, "you would...
...sake of appearances. The Clan last week behaved with admirable propriety. Frankie wore his hairpiece, snarled at not more than one photographer, and offered to sing a solo at the convention (offer declined). Pee-tah wore conservative grey suits and tried not to be conspicuous (Den Mother Shirley MacLaine, a kook in her own right, was for Adlai, so she did not count). Naturally, there were gala parties. Frankie sang new words to All the Way: May I be emphatic? I'm Italian Democratic- All the way. I know it sounds cutting, But we've had enough...