Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Hampton Hawes, 48, jazz pianist and composer (All Night Session); of a brain hemorrhage; in Los Angeles. An effervescent, percussive keyboard stylist inspired by the bop artist Bud Powell, Hawes performed with many of the jazz greats, including Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon and Jimmy Garrison. Although Hawes became addicted to heroin during the 1950s, he kicked the habit and wrote about both his addiction and his music in his autobiography, Raise...
...early years, as up until 1905 Harvard took six out of nine national championships. Yale took the rest. After that, Yale became well-nigh invincible, winning nine consecutive intercollegiate championships. The great Eli golfers of there were John and Archie Reid. Ellis Knowles, Dudley Mudge, DeWitt Balch, Dexter Cummings, Rossiter Betts, Laddy McMohan and Jess Sweetser, who also played quarterback for the Blue...
Special Problem. Conductor James Levine and Stage Director John Dexter, the duo currently guiding the Met's artistic fortunes, have come up with a brilliant Lulu. Levine unravels Berg's intricate, absorbing twelve-tone score in an almost chamberistic way, keeping all voices and orchestral strands balanced and clearly audible, yet summoning up a kind of debauched expressionism when that is called...
...Dexter's task was equally difficult. Lulu is a walking, talking bundle of erotic radioactivity. Known in other places as Woman, Femme Fatale, the Temptress, she is a rough operatic equivalent of Don Giovanni. She consumes the men-and one lesbian-who love her, then is consumed by them and destroyed. She ends up as a streetwalker, and the final slash of the knife is delivered by none other than Jack the Ripper. Some stage directors choose to play up the trampy side of Lulu. Dexter has made her an innocent, totally unaware of the evil effect...
Within these boundaries the protagonists play out the drama of saintly endeavor and human fear like dancers in a dream of both life and death. Stage Director Dexter can take credit for that too, although he has been given some splendid singing actresses to work with - Régine Crespin, Shirley Verrett, Betsy Norden, Maria Ewing. As Blanche, the rich-voiced Ewing emerges as a genuine comer in her blend of inner anguish and, at the end, heroic resolve. In the pit, French Conductor Michel Plasson shapes the music with enough loving deftness to underscore the fact that Dialogues...