Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tonight the Pitches and Kroks take the stage with the Alleycats, one of Yale's all-male a capella singng groups. Valentine's Day is the theme of this performance, and the Pitches will perform their classic "My Funny Valentine" in addition to "Sentimental Journey," which they performed last week at the PBH/Oxfam America Jazz for Life concert. Tonight they present "Do I Love You" for the first time...
That set the stage for more than 30 minutes of barbed debate between the two sides...
...hours with barely a glimmer of rage or pain? Would W.C. Handy and Fats Waller recognize anything except their own music? In truth, not much that is funky survives the onslaught of feathers and sequins. During I Can't Give You Anything but Love, a song about poverty, the stage is aswirl with what looks like gold and diamonds. The title number, which was wrenchingly performed this season in Ain't Misbehavin', is used here to bring on a choral stomp. Almost perversely, the blues, an art rooted in specific American history, is methodically detached from its context...
...down stairs, while his elders return in slow, sentimental sequences to demonstrate the traditional tap presumption that less can be more. That is in contrast to the basic notion of Black and Blue, which seems to be that more is more. Yet in the understated moments when the stage is all but bare save for a performer at home with his craft, the show attains magic that could satisfy the haut monde and Harlem alike...
Imagination remains in order, since last week the Soviet Union completed only the initial stage of a dizzyingly complex election campaign, the first contested balloting in the country's history. Although the period for proposing candidates ended last Tuesday, potential nominees must still pass through a maze of ill-defined voter meetings before they win a spot on the March 26 ballot...