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Guts and Power. The Rodgers sound comes from 192 speakers in 29 cabinets, four of which are 30-in. woofers (for the deep pedal tones) located high in the flies above the stage. The output of the five manuals (keyboards) comes from 18 cabinets strung invisibly within the proscenium arch behind acoustic gauze. In essence the new organ is a giant electronic sound synthesizer. Yet Fox's performances last week -despite his wearisome look-at-me antics and often histrionic interpretations of Bach, Franck, Dupre and Vierne -demonstrated that Carnegie has a superb instrument capable of Baroque festivity, Romantic...
Allan Arbus is overly dramatic and gives the weakest performance in the production as the writer-director. He's supposed to be a starry-eyed idealist but looks more like a high-strung neurotic, and he fails to convey the seriousness of his own dramatic message...
...achieve racial balance, arguing that it is demeaning for blacks to be told that a proper education is impossible in black schools. "My recurring nightmare," he says half jokingly, "has all the white people moving off to Alaska and all the black kids following them, with school buses strung out in a line...
...centuries it was a habit of Popes to collect modern religious art. Up to the papacy of Urban VIII, who gave Bernini carte blanche to transform the face of Rome, the Vatican had a use for the best art of its time: magnificence as propaganda. The results, strung through exhausting miles of galleries and culminating in Raphael's stanze and Michelangelo's Sistine frescoes, fill the Vatican Museum. But this lofty tradition of patronage ebbed away, and by 1900 most official religious art was stranded in a sludge of gaudy plaster piety. With the exception of the gloomy...
...would he be doing if he had to live in Cambridge during the summer? Anyhow, this is purportedly Boston's longest-running musical (Skiddy von Stade runs a close second), and a pleasant enough way to spend an evening. It's mostly a bunch of Brel ballads strung together, but while you're there you can also eat and make moo-moo eyes at your date. Being kept alive at the Cabaret in the Charles Playhouse. Tickets on Fridays and Saturdays cost $5-$6.50. No wonder he's doing so well...