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Lisbon (Republic) boasts one of the year's most sadistic openings: Super-Criminal Claude Rains begins his morning by scattering crumbs on his windowsill, then brains one of the feeding songbirds with a tennis racket and hands it to his cat for breakfast. Besides birds and cats, Claude'...
The first half of the program, devoted to excerpts from Handel's Acis and Galathea, was musically first-rate. Handel was an infallible judge of what singers love to do and should be asked to do. This tale from Ovid was evidently a favorite with him, for he did three...
Refreshed, Puzzled. The concert's four works, written in strange and sometimes perplexing styles, might have left the crowd of 675 stupefied, but instead, left it refreshed. The most ear-cracking work. Webern's scintillant, fractured Variations for Orchestra, was so full of bewitching sonorities that listeners were...
Gerry Mulligan Quartet-Paris Concert (Pacific Jazz). One of the most original spirits of the modern school and the man whose well-formed improvisations helped launch so-called West Coast jazz (TIME, Feb. 1, 1954). Baritone Saxophonist Mulligan cajoles his brutish instrument into some sweet and swinging solos and some...
¶ In London, where he made his first success outside the U.S. 23 years ago, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, trim, happy and 55, returned with his New Orleans-style trumpet. Louis had not been back since 1932, mostly because England and the U.S. mutually refused to admit foreign bands (TIME, March...