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...Angeles' Ron Davis maintains that his 4-in.-thick slabs of tutti-frutti-colored fiber glass, cast in glossy, translucent and sometimes opalescent layers, are meant to be "about" nothing but "what colors are and where you put them." If a visitor suggests that Davis' flat shapes seem to hang away from the wall and look very much like twelve-sided swimming pools, Davis will protest that all he meant to depict was "the illusion of a dodecahedron." What makes the dodecahedron distinctively different is that it is shown as though seen from far, far above. The effect...
Misspent Youth. To their amusement, only Pennsylvania could recall the famous 1946 Ajax song ("Use Ajax, bumm, bumm, the foaming cleanser . . . "). To the question, "What flavor ice cream did Harpo Marx sell in A Day at the Races", the judges ruled out Princeton's "tutti-frutti" for Yale's more colorful and accurate "tootsi-frootsi...
...Italians are scoundrels!" Napoleon once exclaimed in a fit of pique with his compatriots. "Not all," an Italian noblewoman slyly replied, "but a good part (non tutti, ma buona parte...
...eight members to perform over a Southern TV station. The management of the station refused to let Epps sing, and Epps quite legitimately cried discrimination. But his musical penchant has had a brighter side also, and Epps is advisor of the Leverett House Opera Society which produced Cosi Fan Tutti last year and is now presenting Don Giovanni...
Unfortunately, Vivaldi's second flute concerto was not the best vehicle to fully exhibit Miss Monson's brilliance. The solo part is too constraining; the tutti parts are too dominating. She was simply not able to shine the way she can when given the opportunity. This concerto is frequently referred to as one of Vivaldi's "xeroxed concertos"--those he cranked out for his orchestra of girl orphans. Of course, with Vivaldi even a "xeroxed concerto" is a gem; and, given their masterly soloist, the HRO might have made something of this one--if only the strings and the harpsichord...