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Stravinsky: Concertino and Three Pieces for String Quartet (Gordon String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). Stravinsky has written little for string quartets. This alburn includes all of it. Acrid and tart, but powerful, this will make Stravinsky fans wish he had written more. Performance: good...
Lisa (Joan Fontaine), a girl in her middle teens, falls hopelessly in love with a smooth concert pianist (Louis Jourdan) who takes rooms across the hall. Busy with more full-blown girls, he scarcely realizes that she exists. When her family moves, Lisa cannot endure the separation; she runs away, and haunts certain Viennese coffee houses and street corners until the pianist picks her up. During their short affair her lover experiences a faint glimmer of tenderness which might end his philandering, but it doesn't register strongly enough for him to bother looking her up when he returns...
...Houseman and directed by Austrian Max Opuls who, back in the early '30s, made one of the finest pictures of this genre-Schnitzler's Liebelei. Opuls knows all there is to know about romantic values: flirtations in the Prater, late on a winter night; a military band concert in a provincial city; the way a veteran roue misunderstands a refined and ardent woman. Some of his scenes have such strong visual charm that the dialogue recedes to a sort of musical accompaniment. But by & large the movie talks rather than sings -and talks too much and too long...
...middle of the Handel Concerto Grosso in B-Flat, which opened the concert by the Chamber Orchestra last night, the gentleman sitting behind me remarked in a loud whisper, "You really can't beat the Classics for beauty!" I cannot help agreeing with him, particularly when the works of Handel, Bach, and Mozart are performed as competently as they were then...
...concertmaster's obtrusive leadership throughout all the music--in the Bach his pizzicato was louder than the soloist's. The few peculiar noises which eminted from the violin section did not appear during the Bach work, possibly because of the foundation which the piano provided. All in all, the concert was a great success, a combination of good programming and superior performance...