Word: bache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technical sides of the production mirror the best and worst features of the acting. The incidental music syncopates Bach flute sonatas with jazz instrumentation a la Swingle Singers. Mixed with Roberts' brightly patterned sets and costumes (Charles Keating plays Valentine's feigned mad scene in a giant purple paisley robe and a huge hat like the top of a party favor), the music induces a pleasurable sense of swingingly elegant decadence...
...Guards even suggested that gold lettering be banned as crassly "capitalist." Henceforth, they ordered, all signs, inscriptions and customarily white traffic-cop batons must be rendered in red. All books not reflecting Mao-think should be burned; recordings of works by such "feudal-bourgeois-revisionist" composers as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky must be banned. Also on the condemned list: taxicabs, toy wristwatches, sunglasses-and even happiness. A Mukden candy shop was ordered to drop the word happiness from its name, in keeping with the new austerity...
...like to play it safe by riding war horses. Typically, they select the music first, then find accomplished but lesser-known performers to play it. Their first venture, in 1962, was a concert of all six Brandenburg concertos, which one critic forewarned them was nothing but "a lot of Bach and potatoes." But it was all gravy for Hoffman and Schutz, who sold out the hall even after adding a second performance...
Since then, they have put over such unlikely packages as a Christmas series of four different versions of Handel's Messiah, a "Japan Week" featuring the Toho String Orchestra (with Japanese buffet served at intermissions) and a satiric program of baroque music, P.D.Q. Bach (TIME, Jan. 7), which was so successful that it came back twice to full houses, P.D.Q...
...comes, he cooks, he conquers. The girl, a nice dumb redhead (Julie Sommars) who talks as if she thinks Bach comes in bottles, tempts Ted to prove the one thing he is never really sure of: his virility. To ease his fear, he betrays his friend, but poor bumbling Bob refuses to accept betrayal. Galvanized by indignation, he demonstrates that true virility is not a matter of sexual prowess but of spiritual force...