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...half dozen roles--including major ones--during previous seasons of the Festival, she never turned in anything but a praise-worthy job. Miss Nye is young and beautiful--and Lady Macbeth may properly be the same. But Miss Nye is just not Lady Macbeth. For one thing, her vocal tempo is absurdly slow. She is constantly given to internal pauses, often between every two words of a sentence. As a result we hear each sound she makes (though "Out, damned spot!" requires four syllables, not three), but the sounds seldom add up to convincing discourse. She indulges in elocution rather...
Creativity & Brandy. The Lion still qualifies. Last week, during a duo-piano date with Jack Teagarden Alumnus Don Ewell at Manhattan's Village Gate, he rippled off rocking arpeggios and lacy melodies in such original com positions as Echoes of Spring and Passionette; then, in up-tempo drivers like I Found a New Baby and Sweet Georgia Brown, he unleashed his juggernaut left hand to stride and stomp around the lower half of the keyboard while his right hand danced up high in finger-blurring filigrees or punched out syncopated chords. A resplendent showman in his red vest, derby...
...since successfully toured England and France and drew frenzied applause from an audience of 7,000 at this spring's Monterey Pop Festival. On King & Queen (Stax), he shares the throne with Carla Thomas. With rich growls and husky shouts Otis mixes jokes and blues, first down tempo, then up tempo, almost missing the beat and then catching it at precisely the right fraction of a second...
...eldest of the singing Andrews Sisters, who quit school in 1932 at age 17 with sisters Maxine, then 14, and Patti, 12, to play the Midwest vaudeville circuit, finally rocketed to fame in 1937 with Bei Mir Bist du Schoen, went on to blend adhesive harmony and speedy tempo into such hits as Chattanooga Choo Choo, Rum and Coca Cola, Beer Barrel Polka and Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, altogether selling 60 million copies of almost 900 recordings; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
Action along the acquisition front moved at a brisk tempo last week...