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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn conductor, Angel; 3 LPs). Previn herewith completes his cycle of the three great Tchaikovsky full-length ballet scores. As with his The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty, he is always conscious of the ingenious nature of the composer's orchestrations, yet never tries to overcome the music's essential dance quality with virtuoso orchestral tricks. A delightful album, and by far the best Swan Lake on the market. William Bender
...full-length off-Broadway entry, Gemini, he seems most at ease behind the mask of comedy. The setting is a birthday-party reunion in a South Philadelphia backyard between Papa Geminiani (Danny Aiello), who proudly displays the stigmata of the lower middle class, and his 21-year-old Harvard-educated son, Francis (Robert Picardo). To make the culture gap wider, two of Francis' friends drop in unexpectedly from Cambridge, a brother-sister duo of unblemished Wasp credentials-or "white people" in Papa's olive-pure lingo. Francis goes into a panic of sexual ambivalence. The sister (Carol Potter...
Died. John Hubley, 62, innovative animator and creator of the cartoon character Mr. Magoo; during heart surgery; in New Haven, Conn. While working at the Walt Disney studio, Hubley contributed to many memorable full-length cartoons, including the lyrical Rite of Spring segment of Fantasia. With his wife Faith, he formed a production company in 1955; they made films explaining the works of Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson as well as on abstract ideas of psychology, peace, science and democracy. The first of their three Academy Awards was won in 1960 for Moon bird, a joyful cartoon that...
...resurgent interest in the poet during recent years has generated several translations of his work. Very recently, two English-speaking scholars have contributed significantly to our knowledge of Cavafy with complementary works which differ vastly in approach, subject matter and style, but give the English-speaking world a full-length portrait of Cavafy and his work for the first time. Robert Liddell's Cavafy: a Biography sorts out the ambiguities of the poet's life; Edmund Keeley, who praised Liddell's work as "the most authoritative and comprehensive biography of the poet," focuses on Cavafy's poetic development in Cavafy...
...over the phone-often from the 18th century bed in the seven-bedroom house she shares with her four children and Herb, now deputy bureau chief for McGraw-Hill. Most daylight hours, however, she can be found on the phone in her cluttered Post office where, except for a full-length sable coat occasionally flung over her shoulders ("I'm not eccentric, I'm cold."), she looks like any other harried, cynical cityside reporter...