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...firm jaw and conservative business suits, Robert Oliver, 36, is the picture of a successful executive. And so he is: boss of management development at California's missile-making Hughes-Aircraft Co. But when he talks, his voice is that of someone else: an oldtime Wagnerian "black bass," echoing with rare depth and timbre. Executive Oliver's voice is so unusual, in fact, that when Composer Igor Stravinsky first heard him, he added a specially low voice role to his last great work and asked Oliver to sing...
...pursues an ebony-eyed half-breed (Susan Kohner) through the three tasteless hours and 14 minutes (with intermission), only to lose her in the end. "Some day I'll find you," he trills after her. And towering woodenly over all the power struggles and polyglot types is big Bass-Baritone Howard Keel, who plays "two-fisted and profane" Simon Peter as if he had never left Carousel...
...captain's colleague, Mr. Green Jeans-played by Lumpy Brannum, onetime bass fiddler for Fred Waring-brings along a variety of live animals, explains their habits to the kids; lately he has turned up with a midget pony, a coati, a kinkajou, and a ten-week-old Himalayan sun bear. Another colleague, Cosmo ("Gus") Allegretti, inhabits the skin of the durable Dancing Bear, is also the prime mover behind other sympathetic creatures-Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Moose and the somnolent Grandfather Clock. Without prompting devices. Actor Keeshan, 32, meanders around the set using man-to-man language that can make...
Caviar. In Moscow's Mayakovskaya Square, 30 Yale students on a determined good-will expedition sang songs, answered questions about the U.S. in serviceable Ivy League Russian. Over at the usually solemn Tchaikovsky Conservatory, two members of the Yale group, U.S. Jazzmen Dwight Mitchell (piano) and Willie Ruff (bass), fractured a cheering, stomping crowd of Russians. In Manhattan, customers waited in long lines to buy tickets for the Russian Music and Dance Festival, scheduled to open this week at Madison Square Garden...
...Quixote. (This production even includes the actual dumping of Falstaff into the Thames; and what Falstaff later calls his "kind of alacrity in sinking" is conveyed by a descending tuba scale.) For the concluding dance of ouphes and fairies, Bazelon has composed more droll music--for tambourine and bass drum, with ludicrous oom-pahs in the brass...