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...Philly International date is that Jean Carn, who used to do some nice jazz with Doug Carn, will be playing with Wansel and his Planets. Maybe people at the workshop think they can attract both the jazz and the disco crowd by including some nice sax with a thumping bass. We'll see. If you so desire, sets for Dexter are 8:30 and 11:00, for Melba: 9 and 11:30. The Mall/Workshop is at 733 Boylston St., right near Copley Square...
Handel, Messiah: Soprano Elly Ameling, Contralto Anna Reynolds, Tenor Philip Langridge, Bass Gwynne Howell; Academy and Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner conducting (3 LPs, Argo). This is a masterly lesson in the art of making a familiar classic sound fresh and spontaneous. Marriner's authentically baroque phrasings, rhythms and instrumentations have much to do with that. So does his seemingly effortless ability simply to make music sing...
...Police, sings the famous "A policeman's lot is not a happy one" with a straight-faced sincerity that makes his an appropriate foil to the zany police chorus. Of all the major performances, only Gregrey Gorden's Pirate King sounds a sour note. Gorden lacks the bellowing bass and comic belligerence to sustain his caricature of the English peer gone wrong. Perhaps some fiercer make-up would have helped...
...cabin walls, he joked: "I ought to have on my three-piece black suit." His elevated status was symbolized by two small acts: Carter carried his scuffed spare loafing shoes on the plane; an Air Force steward carried them off. After his rest, during which he caught some sea bass and sea trout off a river dock, Carter responded to the kidding from newsmen about "the imperialization of Jimmy." He put his entire staff aboard a chartered airliner for the return flight. Back in Plains, he inherited another badge of high office: a direct telephone link with the White House...
...play together, the evening becomes memorable. It was so in David Storey's Home and it is so now. Flawless timing, intuitive ensemble work, a mastery of gesture from antic toe to arching eyebrow, and marvelously contrasting voices, Gielgud's rippling clarinet and Richardson's booming bass viol-they have it all. May some guardian angel of drama protect and preserve them in our midst...