Word: allegros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Allegro. He is born on Musikalnyi Peruelok - Music Street - in Kiev. His uncle is a music critic, his mother a brilliant amateur pianist. At the age of ten he memorizes the piano scores of Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Parsifal. Clearly, little Vladimir is a musical prodigy...
...Introduction and Allegro for strings, which opened the program, is typically eupbonious and harmless Elgar, but lacking the distinction of his masterly character studies. Considering the short spans and redundancy of the thematic material, the excitement and coherence which Munch created was especially impressive...
...Vision of Battlements is a book to be read twice-once allegro and once more with allegory added. It is perhaps the conflict between classic fate and Christian eschatology which made the book so painful to Novelist Burgess that he suppressed it for so long. Yet he must have known that on the surface it was an amazingly successful first novel, showing his later power to move into the past with Nothing like the Sun, his Elizabethan tour de force, or the Orwellian future with The Clockwork Orange (TIME, Feb. 15, 1963). Burgess has said that he was surprised...
Beethoven combines Haydnesque trickery with his own discreet innovations in the First Symphony. However, both humor and novelty escaped notice in Friday's performance. We did discover that the Bach Society can play very well when it wishes, as in the final Allegro, and also rather aimlessly, as in the shapeless, hurried Andante (which exposed the unpolished second violins...
Davis shows talent as a composer-his picture lilts along in an allegro of lively little scenes. And he shows range and spirit as a humorist-some of the bedroom bits are shy but sly, and the house comes down when Kate, playing the woman of the world with a cigarette she can't quite get the hang of, drops it down her cleavage and has to be royally sloshed with the nearest pot of milk...