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...contrast, spectacle abounds in Princess Ida, the spring opera offering of the Gilbert and Sullivan Players. Aside from the Hasty Pudding musical, the opera has the largest budget of any student production, and the shows usually show it. Topnotch voices are frequently displayed as well...
...reconcile his fusion performances with his brilliant, and sensitive jazz style. On recent albums he plays simplistic music on a barrage of electronic instruments. He sings through a vocal synthesizer. His infrequent piano spots are usually mixed down so far as to be barely audible. His band is topnotch--it includes accomplished jazz players like Bennie Maupin and Alphonse Mouzon--but the high level of players like Bennie Maupin and Alphonse Mouzon--but the high level of hypnotic repetition. The band is worth hearing; Hancock was a vanguard in the field of instrumental funk, and he continues to play...
...individual season is not over for Vastola. This weekend at the ECACs and then the week after at the NCAA s he will be thoroughly tested for the first time this year. Although he may have suffered from the infrequency of his battles with topnotch competition so far this season, Zivkovic still regards him as the foil favorite in the Easterns. "I'm pretty sure every other school is thinking about Gino, thinking that this is the year the number one fencer comes from this school...
Johnny Cash: Gone Girl (Columbia). Much the best Johnny Cash album in years, and a necessary reminder that country music doesn't have to be slick to get unsentimental, doesn't have to bluster to hang tough. An album full of sur prises: some topnotch Cash originals; a country cover of the Stones' No Expectations; a little lyrical autobiography; and a 3%-min. Bildungsroman called The Gambler, in which the worldly title character hands down a little useful guidance to the youthful narrator: "Every hand's a winner/ Just like every hand's a loser...
...steppes of Soviet Asia). A children's hospital in Memphis has confirmed another. In the majority of cases so far reported, the flu has been relatively mild with many patients recovering in three or four days. At the service academies, the cadets and middies, thanks to their generally topnotch condition, suffered lighter attacks and were making quicker recoveries than would a random sample of average citizens...