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Sense of Community. To open some new boundaries at Downstate, Plimpton, of course, needs lots of money to attract a topnotch faculty and launch new programs. He would like to experiment, for instance, with satellite clinics that could provide medical counseling and primary care to people who might not otherwise get to the hospital. He dreams of finding the funds and the staff that would allow poor people to come in for preventive checkups before they are seriously...
...home? If Green Beret civic action teams in Viet Nam could combat sores, human parasites, rats, venereal diseases and other miseries, Tolson reasoned, how much better to do the same thing in the Army's backyard as part of regular training for their primary role as a topnotch fighting force...
...less a triumph for music than proof of the maxim that if you say something loud enough and long enough, people will believe it. Tommy is not an opera, of course, but an extended song cycle. It does have its moments: Pinball Wizard, for example, is explosive, driving, topnotch-hard rock. As a complete piece of musical theater, though, Tommy is pretentious and embarrassing stuff from one of the most gimmick-prone groups in all rock. The Who's favorite pre-Tommy stunt was to smash their guitars, loudspeakers and drums at the end of every...
...Beatles' LP could be all dull, however. Get Back is topnotch. For You Blue is a small gem featuring a moonlit slide guitar that twangs all the way from Nashville to Waikiki. Underlying the basically nostalgic thrust of the album is an authentic piece of oldtime rock 'n' roll, One After 909, which Lennon and McCartney wrote together back...
With this minor exception, both operas received topnotch performances. The costumes were excellent, and so were the instrumentalists. (Hats off to Cyrus Stewart for his virtuoso performance of the horn part in Curlew River. ) The main credit, however, must go to Martin Kessler, musical director of both works, and to Wakeen Ray-Riv (choreographer in the Britten) and Charles Heckscher (director of Daniel ). Most of all, they deserve our gratitude for producing these seldom heard works and, even more, for giving them the performance they deserve...