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With this modest preamble, the dark-eyed darling of American cinema's avant-garde confidently picked up the directorial baton-and fell flat on his face. Too Late Blues is a routine, B-flat movie musical in which Cassavetes can seriously claim success in only one respect: the picture will not make money. To begin with, it constitutes a tired tract for the hysterical cult of hip that preaches salvation through syncopation. The plot, moreover, is a canned arrangement played to death in a dozen previous pictures of this sort: progressive jazzbo (Bobby Darin) goes commercial; loses art, loses...
...linked with any school, but favors Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert-German and Austrian composers that he feels he can "go into for 30 or 40 years and never touch bottom." And his style, as he demonstrated again last week when he played Mozart's rarely heard Concerto in B-Flat Major, lies somewhere between Cliburn bravura and Gould introspection. The B-Flat Concerto was ideally suited to Browning's talent. A witty virtuoso piece, it gave him a chance to display his brilliant technique, particularly in a rippling right hand. But there were also the long lyric lines...
...bullfight. His long-suffering friends are even accustomed to having him turn up with his equipment to record their squalling, hiccuping children. Wild animals have been Prey's most difficult subjects ("The only possible way to get an alligator to cut loose is by tooting a B-flat French horn; they think the damn thing's a female"). But one of his most memorable triumphs occurred in the lion house of New York's Bronx Zoo. There one spring day he roared at a hungry and puzzled lion until the beast let out a howl "like something...
...wonder, then, that, totting up its scores of 200 national anthems that Navy ships play on official courtesy calls to foreign ports, the Admiralty this year discovered that it lacked an up-to-date version of Muscat's. The only version available was a B-flat clarinet score. The Admiralty asked the Foreign Office to forward the score to its man in Muscat for verification...
...contemporary music last year (TIME, Oct. 6), Stravinsky got his wish. The composer's Threni, id est Lamentationes ]eremiae Prophetae (i.e., Threnody, Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah) is a complex, 33-minute work for six vocal soloists, chorus and full orchestra, and the bass part, ranging from middle B-flat to low E-flat, is the most difficult of all. At Venice, says Conductor Robert Craft, who rehearsed Threni's chorus, the starring role should have been the tenor, "but there was no question that Oliver ran away with all the honors." Last week music lovers could hear...