Word: waltzed
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Early in the evening came the world premiere of David Del Tredici's Happy Voices. The composer may have intended a bravura show for the orchestra, but his garish, repetitive work was more like a Richard Strauss waltz heard in a nightmare. When Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No.1, with Rudolf Serkin as soloist, followed, the listener was prepared for old-fashioned piano busting. Instead, the instrument could scarcely be heard except in solo passages and in a lyrical dialogue between the cellos and the piano...
DIED. Harold Edgar Clurman, 78, ebullient, versatile catalyst of the American theater, who attained eminence as a director (Member of the Wedding, The Waltz of the Toreadors), producer, author, teacher and raconteur; of cancer; in New York City. After starting out as an actor, he founded the Group Theater in 1931 to serve as an alternative to Broadway's commercial offerings; for ten years it provided a forum for playwrights like Clifford Odets and William Saroyan, introduced to the American stage the Stanislavsky Method of acting, and nourished such actors as Lee Strasberg, John Garfield, Cheryl Crawford...
Should he win the primary, Bok will waltz into the statehouse on November 4--the district is overwhelmingly Democratic. Should he lose, Bok will probably finish up his schooling later in the year, and go off to find new battles...
...that he did best. As a director, he had a jet pilot's sense of speed and angle of ascent. Fond memories of his Bye Bye Birdie offer abundant evidence of that. His choreography could turn from the gliding thunder of tap to the vaulting grace of a waltz without missing a step. The vitality of such 42nd Street numbers as The Shadow Waltz-done just with work lights-Lullaby of Broadway and We're in the Money ensures that this show will not be a Champion memorial but, fittingly, an ongoing tribute...
What Dalton describes as her "waltz for the malt" style has enough bleary good humor and lazy musical charm that one could imagine it sung by both outlaws like Waylon Jennings and slickers like Kenny Rogers. Although she calls her music "progressive," her best songs are little nuggets in the rushing middle of the country mainstream. If Lacy's performing and writing are not of themselves unique, together they are formidable, a fact acknowledged by Billy Sherrill, CBS Records vice president and executive producer in Nashville. "There are a lot of good singers out there, but there aren...