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Both actors make it clear that their characters are upper-crust crooks. Though ruthless and determined, they have a foppish quality and a refinement surprising for someone in their line of work. In one nice mise-en-scene bit Henriksen plays a Beethoven sonata in the drawing room of his estate while another homeless man is recruited for the next hunt. Henriksen's crony questions the victim about his finances and relatives. Each answer is intercut with shots of Henricksen and his opulent estate...
...spot on the lawn knew they were getting good music, or at least what they were told was good music. Nonetheless, most of the conversation that could be heard was more like "Have you met my cousin Morry?" than "Have you heard Zukerman's new Beethoven sonatas...
...first and most obvious problem has to do with money. Unlike the newly fashionable lean and mean corporations, symphonic ensembles cannot readily strip down. It takes the same number of musicians -- about 100 -- to play a Strauss tone poem today as it did a century ago, and a major Beethoven symphony still requires almost an hour to perform. Orchestras raise funds through ticket sales (about 35% of their income), government funding and private donations, but income is hard pressed to keep up with expenditures even when an orchestra is performing to near capacity houses...
...past 30 or 40 years. New works are often presented as a bitter pill to be washed down with familiar symphonic staples. Conductors, meanwhile, too often treat the Central European classical repertoire as a kind of competition course, with each one eager to put his stamp on the Beethoven symphonies or the Stravinsky ballets and thus climb the career ladder. "When I was a student in New York, you could hear orchestras playing diverse repertoires," Leonard Slatkin, music director of the St. Louis Symphony, told the Symphony League convention. "There is now a common repertoire. The overuse of a repertoire...
...speech to the Women's Bar Association. "And they are getting into trouble, and they are being hurt." Reno draws freely on the lessons of her own family. "It was my mother, who worked in the home, who taught us to bake cakes, to play baseball, to appreciate Beethoven's symphonies," she says. "She spanked us hard, and she loved us with all her heart. And there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life...