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...broad range of expression. His 'romantic' was romantic--resplendent in rolling arpeggios and octave runs. His 'energetic' evoked a clockwork sort of busy-ness with fast chromatic fingerwork; and his 'mysterious' combined bright interjections from the right hand over dense tone clusters and sombre, meandering notes in the bass to set a mood of eerie expectancy...
...Golden Calf: gold is collected and formed into an idol; a ritual slaughter of animals is followed by a sacrifice of Four Naked Virgins; there is an orgy of drunkenness, sexual license and suicide. By forsaking emotionally neutral biblical robes for specific ghetto mufti (only Moses, portrayed by Bass-Baritone Theo Adam, is outfitted in Old Testament garb), Ponnelle risked having the quarrelsome Jews appear like characters in one of Julius Streicher's Nazi racist fantasies, evoking the stereotype of avariciousness and the calumny of blood libel. Even the splendid performances of Adam, British Tenor Philip Langridge as a smooth...
...cast seemed sluggish and unfocused, but in the more stimulating environment of live performance, the interpretation gleamed. His is not the rhythmically incisive, sharply chiseled Mozart currently in favor in the wake of the original-instruments revolution, but a mellower, more reflective interpretation that prizes sonority and melodic beauty. Bass Samuel Ramey was a swaggering antihero, cocky till the end, and Soprano Julia Varady brought a sweet pathos to the obsessive Donna Elvira. Director Michael Hampe's staging was conventional until the climax. When the Commendatore dragged the unrepentant Don to perdition, the Iberian setting vanished to reveal a cosmic...
There was a lot of courage and generosity going around. Almost everything in South Bend was done, and done well, by volunteers, among them some 1,200 members of a service group called Civitan. Community people back in Elizabeth City, N.C., held bass-fishing derbies and bowlathons and the like to help Beverly James compete. She is the tenth of twelve children -- "eight of whom have finished college," her mother Penny says with pride -- and her father Roscoe has Parkinson's disease. Beverly, 19, who functions at a second-grade level intellectually, is pleasant and mannerly...
...hardly worth dramatizing. So Writer-Director Luis Valdez shapes facts into fable. Valens' family is a chicano caricature; death forever stalks our shooting star; chunky Ritchie is made over into winsome Lou Diamond Phillips. Even the music (by Los Lobos) sounds thin next to the originals, with their booming bass lines. Only at a concert with Jackie Wilson and Eddie Cochran does La Bamba come alive as a sharp tribute to '50s rock from some sons of the pioneers. The rest of the movie plays like a 106- minute version of a teen ballad: Donna in the easy-listening remix...