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THE STEVENSON WIT (RCA Victor) consists of excerpts from the speeches, press conferences and off-the-cuff remarks of the late ambassador, strung together with remarks by David Brinkley. Though Stevenson's wit was warm and enlightening, he was not a comic, and to isolate his jokes from the...
P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742) is the happy creation of Schickele, a composer and former teacher. The concert was a sometimes broad but always knowing lampoon of baroque music, carried off with just enough expertise to border on the believable. Some of the musical jokes, excellently played by a 20-piece...
Up the Spine. Buffy's protest songs are strictly personal. She is not interested in Viet Nam or the Bomb, but in Uncle Sam's treatment of the Indian. But protest is not her only pitch, and she has other things on her mind that any non-Indian...
Both works were performed by a group of dancers on stage, an orchestra below them and to their right, and a chorus between the two. Visually, the dance dominated, as it should. Musically, the orchestra and chorus were well-balanced and attracted the listener without distracting the viewer.
As a dramatic chronicle of the encounter of the aging conquistador Francisco Pizarro and the young Inca emperor Atahuallpa, however, the play is mechanical, preachy, largely unaffecting and sometimes silly. Ancient Mariner style, Shaffer supplies his own albatross in the form of a narrator, always an ill omen that the...