Word: clowned
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...Dublin to performers from Duffy's Circus and a parade of Hollywood stars. Well, promotion might be a better word for it, but it certainly was eminently successful. With 980 spectators paying $40 and more for seats, Performers Shirley MacLaine, Sean Cannery, Burgess Meredith and Eric Clapton donned clown costumes and joined with Duffy's jugglers, acrobats and tumblers-all to raise money for a pair of children's charities: the Central Remedial Clinic and the Variety Club of Ireland, dedicated to the support of blind and handicapped children. High point of the celebrity get-together...
...musical core. Body movements are a carefully indicated in the score as the notes. There are instructions about standing and sitting, and the position of the instrument as well as the usual grunts and vowel sounds. To add to the effect, the player is expected to wear a clown costume. It is this sense of theater, this reliance on dramatic rather than musical necessity, that is the driving force behind this and other Berio works...
According to Robinson, the clown is a fitting emblem for Berio personally and for his music--a distraught, confused surface which believes a deeper pathos and sensitivity. And like a clown, Berio is deeply motivated by the theatrical impulse. So despite the fragmentation and lack of hummable tunes in his music you can sense that he has remained committed to the audible dramatic gesture...
...assimilate, being highly elliptical, syntactically intricate, and stuffed with multiple meanings, is somewhat abridged here, so that the entire show has a running time of only 170 minutes. For some reason Kahn has adopted hybrid pronunciations for the names Leontes, Paulina and Proserpina; and I wonder whether the Clown's misaccentuation of "lamentably" is intentional. why too must everyone accent occurs some 60 times in Shakespeare, and it almost invariably requires first-syllable stress...
...Rock Singer Linda Ronstadt, is not readily revealed, although friends testify that Brooks never entirely abandons comedy in private. Singer Harry Nilsson recalls sleeping off a drunk one night on the floor at Brooks' small house in the Hollywood hills. His host appeared before him dressed in a clown suit and whispered his name like a beckoning ghost. All in the Family's Rob Reiner remembers going for a drive with his boyhood pal and getting lost. Brooks went into a field and asked directions back to Los Angeles from a cow. "It ought to know," Brooks reasoned...