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...Boston last week, Mantovani and a 45-piece orchestra (mostly of U.S. musicians) jampacked staid old Symphony Hall on the first leg of a 60-city tour. The crowd, a cross section of the musical public from teen-agers to grandparents, was there to listen rather than to participate. When slight, unassuming Bandleader Mantovani walked solemnly on stage, the crowd seemed to squirm with delight. When he played such favorites as Always, Green Sleeves, Moulin Rouge and Schubert's Ave Maria, the communal catch in the throat was almost audible. Afterwards, autograph hunters queued up quietly outside his dressing...
...more than sing. But today a popular singer is apt to put on an elaborate production that calls for scriptwriters, stage director, musical director, arranger, piano accompanist, set designer and dress designers. Last week in her one-woman show in the Persian Room of Manhattan's staid old Plaza Hotel, Songbird Lisa Kirk used all of this paraphernalia to display as much of her shapely figure as the law allows. But between her entrance and exit in scanties, she did manage to sing...
After watching the staid, wellrehearsed, self-satisfied delegates of the Republican Convention, I can hardly wait to cast my very first vote with that motley crew of rowdy Democrats...
...your Aug. 27 story on the American painter, John Vanderlyn: I certainly should appreciate very much seeing his picture of Ariadne, which "shocked his staid American contemporaries...
...match the fame he enjoyed in Paris. He returned in 1815, confidently bearing with him the pictures Paris had admired. Among them was the slickest nude yet painted by an American, a solid, polished essay in sensuality, made respectable, he hoped, by its title: Ariadne. But Ariadne shocked his staid American contemporaries, who denounced the picture as an example of European depravity...