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...love is simply tremendous, as is "Teenager in Love" in which (swear to God) Chico actually cries. New numbers "Sha Boom" and "Summertime" are welcome deviations from the traditional Sha repertoire. "Summertime" particularly, with Johnny "Kid" Contardo once again revealing how versatile and disciplined his voice really is, is superb...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Sha Na Na: Revitalizing Revivalists | 11/9/1973 | See Source »

...someone like myself, the end of Sha Na Na's revitalized show is a beautiful finale to an evening's love for rock-and-roll. And sated from a superb ending to an impressive performance, and content in the knowledge that I've been given something that would endure, I can happily settle back, nodding in agreement, as Bowzer croons the final measures of the evening: Though we must part...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Sha Na Na: Revitalizing Revivalists | 11/9/1973 | See Source »

Yannatos showed further short-sightedness when he rotated the instrumentalists within his wind section--an extraordinary policy which resulted in a superb flute performance in Stravinsky's Petrushka and then abysmal, brittle, out-of-tune music from the flutes and oboes in the Dvorak. The sloppy wind performance in the cello concerto obscured a strong effort by the strings to match at least partially the virtuosity of Starker...

Author: By Charlie Shepard, | Title: The Two Faces of Janos | 11/7/1973 | See Source »

...have arranged a weekend of undisturbed eating at a fenced-in country house once owned by the classical poet Boileau-Despreaux. Their arrival is followed by the arrival of the meat truck bearing wild boar, lamb, beef. Each carcass is ceremoniously described: "Three dozen young Ardennes roosters...two superb, soft-eyed deer, the flesh redolent...ten dozen semi-wild game hens...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Pumping the Stomach | 11/1/1973 | See Source »

...finest soul singers to be heard, and her group has been around a long, long time. I'd pay the price of admission to hear "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" sung ten times. I've never seen a Pips concert, but Ms. Knight's superb recording style is probably intoxicating in person...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rock and Jazz | 11/1/1973 | See Source »

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