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...with the great blues singer. Hardwick, the prudent observer, is fascinated by the abandon with which Holiday burned talent and life. There is a tendency to mythologize her excesses and her presence: "The lascivious gardenias, worn like a large, white, beautiful ear, the heavy laugh, marvelous teeth, and the splendid head, archaic, as if washed up from the Aegean...
...intense hammer throw event, trackman Tom Lenz grabbed third with a splendid toss...
...will be correlative to the key synopsis of the past and to the uncharted multipotential planes outside the bounds of the limited earth-eternity futre... and playing music that is both startlingly contemporary and firmly rooted in jazz traditions on a variety of keyboard instruments. The Arkestra is a splendid big band, and also apparently a kind of communal venture; they all live together with Sun (Sunny?) in a big house in Philadelphia. He has been called a charlatan, a genius, and a madman, but the power and longevity of his art make indifference to Sun Ra impossible. Check...
...happily the President of France forsook affairs of state for an affaire de coeur. Splendid in morning coat, tall, smiling Valéry Giscard d'Estaing gave his arm to his youngest daughter Jacinte, 19, who became the bride of Architect Philippe Guibout, 29. For the civil ceremony the couple and attendants crowded into the same minuscule town hall in the Loire Valley farming village of Authon in which Giscard père et mère (Anne-Aymone de Brantes) exchanged vows 26 years ago. Then came the more solemn religious ceremony in a tapestry-draped 12th century...
...opening-night audience greeted all this with a mixed but emphatic response. There were cheers for the buoyant conducting of James Levine and the splendid ensemble of Soprano Carol Neblett Tenor William Lewis, Bass-Baritone José van Dam and Bass Paul Plishka. The applause for Ponnelle was mixed with full-throated booing sounds, heard often enough on the Continent but rarely at the Met. New York audiences like their Wagner to be conventional...