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Rocky's manager, Al Weill, is a sly guy, in a notoriously dirty business. He has described Rocky rather gloatingly as "A nice boy ... a poor Italian boy from a large, poor family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anyone else. Them type guys is hard to get out there. You want to look out for them young broke fighters...
Four-Day Whirl. In Brandeis' canvas-topped amphitheater, he whirled through four days & nights of conducting (his own opera. Marc Blitzstein's new English adaptation of Kurt Weill's Three-Penny Opera, a dance work and a symphony concert) and leading discussions on theater, films, jazz and the relation of music to society ("Do we really need or want" the concert hall...
Blitzstein's concert-version adaptation of the late Kirt Weill's "Threepenny Opera" will receive a premiere performance on Saturday evening, June...
...from current repertory, it promised productions of i) Alban Berg's tragic opera, Wozzeck, which no U.S. audience has seen in 21 years, 2) a stage version of Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, and 3) a new adaptation, by Marc Blitzstein, of Kurt Weill's The Three-Penny Opera. Possible hitch: Halasz, who is still fighting his year-end dismissal (TIME, Dec. 31), contends that, under his last contract, none of last year's repertory may be produced this year without Halasz on deck...
...typical Maxwell performance one night last week began with a fast, explosive samba, went on to a sentimental arrangement of Kurt Weill's September Song and a plunky version of I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover. The final numbers: a medley of Gershwin tunes and a swing arrangement of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. Says Maxwell: "I play Liszt as I think Liszt would play if he were alive today." The supper-club crowd hushed down to devoted silence for Maxwell's 20-minute performance, even when their glasses stood empty...