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Still, on the whole, Carter handled well the many problems of timbre and balance presented by this odd medium, though in a few places he smothered the low register of the flute. The Lento was the most appealing movement, with its recurring effective series of chord clusters on the harpsichord and its busy, feathery middle section, which seemed to be Carter's idea of a modern Queen Mab scherzo...
...simple girl from a mining town in Idaho find happiness as a glamorous movie queen? To popeyed newspaper readers sated vicariously with this tired story line, the answer struck last week with the finality of a chord of doom: no -in the case of one queen in particular. The chord rumbled for Lana Turner, the Sweater Girl whose feckless pursuit of happiness became men's-room talk from Sunset Boulevard to Fleet Street, and for her shaken, 14-year-old daughter Cheryl, who stabbed Lana's paramour, Johnny Stompanato (TIME. April 14). Last week a coroner...
...finish, though, is not quite what the audience expects. The almost sappy major chord of the conclusion is suddenly modulated into a slyly suspenseful and sophisticated dissonance. The sophistication may not be real, but it is realistic. Broadway is pretty much like what Scriptwriters Ruth and Augustus Goetz and Director Sidney Lumet...
...lady was dancing in the aisle, and was ejected. A single finger beat with monomaniacal purpose on a single piano key, a one-chord keynote to a kaleidoscope of sound...
...start the story, the unmistakable voice soared like a chord out of the TV screen. In the end Narrator Walter Cronkite intoned: "This was the man . . . When will there be another like him?" The marrow in between was a combination of film clips, photographs and dialogue lovingly composed by Producer Burton Benjamin, Associate Producer Isaac Kleinerman and Writer John Davenport into a Concerto for Orchestra and One Man. Some rare scenes: a Soviet film of Lenin; an impatient Churchill pouncing up the gangplank of a World War II warship; a silently terrible shot of the British wreckage at Dunkirk...