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Snares and Trumpets. The result, a two-act, two-hour TV opera, was broadcast jointly last weekend by the BBC and America's NET. As it turned out, Owen Wingrave was something less than Britten's best. Though carefully modulated for the home listener, the vocal writing showed...
The third "show-stopper" is Alexis Smith's spectacular "Story Of Lucy And Jessie" which is a honky-tonk dance number written in the style of Cole Porter. The lyric (the cleverest in the show if not the best) is all there, but that is all that is there. As...
At 27, Sondheim became co-author of West Side Story and an established Broadway lyricist. "Steve always wanted to be an American Noel Coward," Foxy recalls fondly. The lyrics for Sondheim's next show, Gypsy, with music by Jule Styne, revealed a Lorenz Hartfulness. He rhymed Mazeppa and schlepper, and...
A top Senate aide used to begin his first telephone conversation of each week with a hearty "F- J. Edgar Hoover." To the startled listener on the other end of the line, he explained: "Just clearing the lines." During the debate over G. Harrold Carswell's nomination to the...
When ex-Convict James A. White settled down at his pal Harvey Jackson's house, the talk often centered on White's drug-pushing activity. Jackson was an attentive listener. So were two federal agents, one hidden in Jackson's kitchen closet, the other outside his home...