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Manuel Vaccaro - photo by Mattia Vaccaro

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Мanuel Vaccaro | Complexions Contemporary Ballet | Photo by Renee Choi

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Manuel Vaccaro (20, Italy) - Complexions Contemporary Ballet, NY

photo © Renee Choi

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RIP LARRY STORCH

1923-2022

Lawrence Samuel Storch was an actor and comedian best known for his comic television roles, including the bumbling Corporal Randolph Agarn on “F Troop” (1965-67). He started acting on television in 1951. Several of his early appearances were at or for Desilu. 

In February 1955, Larry Storch appeared on the Desilu variety series “Shower of Stars” titled “That’s Life.”  Storch did an impression of a Russian radio reporter describing a baseball game. 

In February 1964, he returned to Desilu for an episode of “The Greatest Show on Earth” titled “Clancy” co-starring with Jack Palance, Marta Kristin, and Edmund O’Brien.  

In 1965, Storch appeared in the Blake Edwards film The Great Race, which also featured Vivian Vance in one of her rare screen roles. Lucille Ball visited the set to observe filming. 

In August 1966 he appeared on the Desilu series “Vacation Playhouse,” an anthology series of unproduced pilots. This one was titled “My Lucky Penny” starring Richard Benjamin, Brenda Vaccaro, Joel Gray, and Jonathan Harris. 

In November 1967, Storch played a bank robber on an episode of the Desi Arnaz sitcom “The Mothers-in-Law” titled “I Thought He’d Never Leave”. The episode was produced and directed by Elliott Lewis, husband of Mary Jane Croft. Wilbur Hatch was the show’s musical director. It was filmed at Desilu Studios. 

That same year, Storch appeared in an episode of “Gomer Pyle: USMC”, which was filmed on the Desilu backlot. Storch played Manuel Cortez, who  comes to America to observe the Marine Corps in action to help his country's armed forces. In December 1968, he returned to play the character in one more episode of the series. 

He was seen in an episode of “Mannix” - a show championed by Lucille Ball - in February 1968.  The episode was titled “Another Final Exit” in which Storch played the down-and-out brother-in-law to a mobster.  In 1974, Storch returned for a second episode titled “Portrait in Blues.”

Storch and Lucille Ball both appeared in “Ann-Margret: From Hollywood with Love” (1969).  The second half of the special opened with Storch hosting a mock celebrity gossip show titled “Jeremy Farber’s Hollywood at Home”.  Storch and Ball did not have share screen time. 

In March 1976, the Bob Hope star-studded special “Joys!” (a pun on Jaws), featured (among many others) Larry Storch and Desi Arnaz Sr.  Also in the cast was Storch’s childhood friend Don Adams. 

In January 1978, Storch played Elwood Riggs on a two-part episode of “The Love Boat” that also featured Desi Arnaz Jr.

“I'll never forget what Edward Everett Horton said to me: ‘Promise me, Larry, you will never grow old’. I've tried my best to use that advice.” ~ LARRY STORCH

Storch was married to his wife Norma from 1961 until her passing in 2003. They had one child. He was 99 years old. 

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Manuel Vaccaro Italian Dancer 🇮🇹 Bolshoi Ballet Academy  by @nikitakit.ph

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Text by Massimo Carozzi, post Fb 02.12.2021

Ho incontrato la musica di Alvin Lucier tardi, nei primi anni zero. Me la fece conoscere Valerio Tricoli. In quel periodo 3/4HadBeenEliminated (Valerio, Clavdio Rocchetti e Stefano Pilia) sperimentavano registrando la loro musica per poi diffonderla in uno spazio e ri-registrarla nuovamente in quello stesso spazio.

Valerio mi raccontò di I Am Sitting in a Room, un'opera il cui testo era la descrizione del procedimento necessario a realizzare l'opera stessa.

Un meccanismo semplice ma aperto a livelli di complessità concentrici, come le risonanze di un suono in una stanza.

Più tardi, nel 2009, arrivò l'occasione di sentire il pezzo eseguito da Alvin Lucier, a New York, nel teatro della Columbia University.

Lucier indossava un pullover rosso, cravatta regimental e un paio di scarpe da basket bianche.

Alla quarta/quinta iterazione del testo le parole e il loro significato cominciano lentamente a sfaldarsi lasciando emergere ad ondate le frequenze risonanti e, come in un guanto che lentamente si rivolta, il significato lascia il posto al puro significante. In questo lento transito, c’è un momento, di solito dopo 7/8 iterazioni, in cui le proprietà acustiche dello spazio in cui il pezzo viene eseguito, articolate dal discorso, si trasformano, come in un processo alchemico, in pura melodia.

In tutto questo lo scopo di questo brano, nelle stesse parole di Lucier, è trovare un modo per “appianare eventuali irregolarità che il discorso potrebbe avere”, ovvero, in qualche modo, neutralizzare la balbuzie che affliggeva Lucier.

Qualche tempo dopo ho cominciato a costruire una patch su Ableton Live per poter riprodurre questo brano dal vivo e riuscimmo a farlo nel 2011 con Auriga (un quartetto con cui ho suonato per qualche anno insieme a Luciano Maggiore, Salvatore Arangio e Dominique Vaccaro) e con Manuele Giannini che lesse il testo di Lucier.

Con quella stessa patch poi, una volta all’anno, ho coinvolto gli studenti che seguono i miei corsi in questo esperimento, sfruttando il riverbero lunghissimo e scintillante dell’Aula Magna dell’ Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna . Qui sotto si può vedere l’ultima versione, che risale al maggio scorso.

Mi dispiace molto che Alvin Lucier se ne sia andato, ma d’altronde, arrivato a 90 anni, quello che doveva fare l’ha fatto.

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Manuel Vaccaro - photo by RO. STUDIO NYC

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Мanuel Vaccaro | Complexions Contemporary Ballet | Photo by Mati Gelman

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Manuel Vaccaro by Mati Gelman photography

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Gorgeous covers!  This was also the first book (of too few) that I read in high school that I loved.  It’s my favourite book.  I have several 1980 editions saved from dumpster dives, curbs, and Little Libraries.  Here are other editions I have... 

1959 edition (illustrator not credited) 1972 (2010 reprint) Spanish edition (cover by Manuel Estrada) - given to me by @athenrys​ from her trip to Spain :) 2003 50th Anniversary Hardcover edition (dustcover/book design by Claire Naylon Vaccaro, and beautiful purple-ink illustrations by Ben Gibson) 2006 edition (cover by Ben Gibson)

LORD OF THE FLIES covers.

The first one, the cover of the 1954 first edition, is by Anthony Gross. Then the 1980 cover by Barron Storey. The 1990 edition, next, is the one I remember best; I read it in high school, and it was the first (non-children’s) book I actually enjoyed reading, along with CATCHER IN THE RYE. The cover is by Paul Hogarth. Then the 1993 cover by David Hughes. I’ve featured George Salter’s covers before—his cover illustration, image 5, is from 1962. Lastly, the 1960 Penguin edition, also by Anthony Gross.