Word: bache
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...Capricious Summer, a disappointingly slight fable about a traveling carnival in a small country town. There are three films from what the festival labels "the German Renaissance"; two of them suggest that it might have been better advertised as "the Return of the Visigoths." The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach is a paralyzed semidocumentary in which the Top 20 Bach hits are rendered by some bewigged court musicians. Signs of Life, an Antonioniesque account of the Wehrmacht in Greece in 1944, belies its title...
Given this compulsive speeded tempo the Who relish in a wide variety of styles ("They have a nice sense of play' 'a photographer friend remarked) ranging from the chain gang 'Bald Headed Woman' to the baroque Swingles Singers Bach effect on 'Silas Stingy' chanting 'money money money money. . .' in rising and falling strains to harpsichord music...
...another series directed by him. The program consisted of chamber works by Haydn, Mozart and Schubert, all played by Schneider and his fellow performers with much warmth, zest and perhaps a shade too much emotionalism (in Schneider's view, "Haydn was a romantic composer; Mozart too-and Bach"). The performance was unified, but each player had the freedom to express his own personality. "Homogeneity is the worst thing in music," Schneider explains. "It is not so good in marriage either. The first five bars sound wonderful, but afterward you are very bored because everything sounds the same...
...Bach & the Beatles. Though Joan Miró is now 75, the freshness and fascination with which his blue eyes see the world around him have not changed. For 60 years, he has been painting these forms-sun, moon, star, woman, man, birds, flowers, sparks. Of course he paints them in his own way-and they are instantly recognized the world over. Though he insists that he only draws what he sees, his images are usually a surreal shorthand. An asterisk denotes a star, a curlicue a snail, a cartoon figure with popeyes and a Minnie Mouse behind becomes a kind...
...careful preparations that come before. He sketches incessantly, in the subway and even on the airplane -as he did last month when he popped across the Atlantic to pick up an honorary degree from Harvard. Much of his inspiration comes from music. "Right now I'm in a Bach mood," he reports. "Tomorrow it could be Stockhausen. I'm very fond of the Beatles, too." Then, after the first spontaneous burst of creation, come the months-and sometimes years-of revision. "A line," says Miró, "has to breathe. If it doesn't, it's dead...