mort

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Inspired by the social satirist Tom Lehrer and the comedian Mort Sahl, Mr. Russell’s humor could be biting and sarcastic, but his tone was amicable and good-natured and often had the ring of one friend teasing another.

From Washington Post

Critics said that the political satire of Mort Sahl and Tom Lehrer had more cutting edge, but Mr. Russell thrived on subtler material that went over with students, politicians and public television audiences.

From New York Times

Norman came up with the idea for the next project, which brought together three queenly characters: Haydn’s “Scena di Berenice,” Berlioz’s “La Mort de Cléopâtre” and Britten’s “Phaedra,” all recorded with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in February 1994.

From New York Times

And the taste for the lurid that he has demonstrated in his British shows is on regular display here, in flashes of dead-animal grotesquerie, baroque killing methods and a tableau mort out of “Silence of the Lambs.”

From New York Times

“It’s said of the event that you need two horses to row a coxed pair. Findlay . . . can pick up a 150-pound outboard in each hand and lug them to the dockside like milk pails,” Sports Illustrated journalist Mort Lund once wrote of the 6-foot-6, 200-pound athlete.

From Washington Post