Word: swanning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chauvinized vision of what they would be when they grew up. Despite the fact that Underdog and Bionic Woman now mold the taste of young audiences, Sabatini may be in for a revival. Ballantine Books has reprinted in paperback 100,000 copies each of so-so Sabatini (The Black Swan, Captain Blood Returns, Mistress Wilding). Three examples of super-Sabatini (The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, Bellarion) are to follow. Quickly, one hopes. At his worst Sabatini is a hypnotic yarn spinner. At his best he is a semiserious novelist who, like Dumas père, uses melodrama as a billboard...
...scene is wide open," says Clive Davis, president of Arista, which shared in 1975's booming record sales of some $2.3 billion. Danny Goldberg, former vice president of Swan Song Records, which has hit it big with Led Zeppelin, complains that "everybody in the business knows a new era has got to come, but they're too busy cashing in on the old one to help it along." Some are helping, either by working their own personal territory (like Randy Newman, Ry Cooder, Tom Waits and James Talley) or, like Simon, Dylan, Bruce Springsteen (TIME cover...
Presence--Led Zeppelin, Swan Song. Instead of buying this album, take a handful of reds, turn the bass knob on your stereo all the way up, and call me in the morning...
...much with us--it's not another world any more, an escape to childhood. But I think Angell's sadness will abate--along with the rest of the country's--in the green months of high summer, and that the successor to this wistful meandering will be an impassioned swan song to July...
...thing which will undoubtedly suffer from neglect in Moshell's absence is the concerto--a musical genre which demands both quantity and quality of players. Moshell has scheduled a concert of all-meat and no-down concerti for his swan song. Offering several Brahms lieder as an hors d'oeuvre, Moshell at the piano will accompany soprano Tamara Mitchel '78 who might justifiably view these as warm-up exercises; she will then dive into Wagner's incredibly challenging Prelude and Liebestod from the opera Tristan and Isolde...