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...BACH WORK made use of highly contained, abstracted movement; the experience of the dancers was based, not so much on ideas, as on immediate, rhythmic relationships, both among themselves and with the music. The dancers did not work with the swell of the music as mood or emotion, but reached constantly to the beat, as if to get as close to the instant as possible by testing every rhythmic tick, or catching it for a ride. The electronically calibrated music, used in three of the works, bore whiffs of the Maxwell house percolator. And the dancers, though graceful, looked...
...Jonathan Livingston Seagull, still perched in the top 10 for something like the 70th week in a row. Psychologists have had a field day in this time of Watergate and Cambodia et al., proclaiming Seagull a book of hope and comparing it to St. Exupery. But author Richard Bach is much too blatant in this expanded greeting card. He gives way to gimickry in place of the soft and the absurd. His seagull is too ambitious, and too successful...
...almost in the business of flying rainbows over crushed emeralds," said Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Bach had been flying a 1929 Travel Air 4000 over Pecatonica, Ill. for a documentary being made from his book Nothing by Chance (1969) about barnstorming in the '20s and '30s. The film version of Jonathan takes off next fall...
...language: to the "inoperative" statements, the "counter-insurgency actions" that are actually bombings, and the "intelligence programs" that are actually programs of mass murder. (My own favorite instance was Jerry Friedheim's admission last January that there might have been some damage to "the hospital the enemy calls Bach Mai.") But not enough attention has been paid to the language liberals have used to discuss...
...result is a bold piece of work-improvisatory, imaginative and thoroughly in keeping with the spirit of the toccatas of Bach that inspired it. In "Anne Boleyn," Wakeman starts out with the courtly use of an old English hymn, then progresses to a violently free-for-all jazz v. rock v. classics jamboree. In these and the other four movements, Wakeman writes in a manner that has the punch and power of rock combined with the taste and cohesion of traditional symphonic fare...