Word: concert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie has yet shown quite so cunningly or colorfully as Stardust all the internal battles of superstardom. If it dealt as strongly with the personal struggles, it would be even better. But this is a film that captures surfaces: the high-charged energy of a concert, the languor and uncertainty that comes with getting it all before you have wanted it long or hard enough. MacLaine is a familiar character, and the film makers are careful to make him selfish and artistically ambitious beyond his true abil ity. The movie's funniest sequence is MacLaine's masterwork...
...back community respect. Even a score by the usually excellent Bernard Herrman is of little help. Herrman did the music for many of Hitchcock's best films (Vertigo, Psycho). His participation in It's Alive lends it a fleeting and futile air of quality, like a concert virtuoso playing piano in a cathouse...
...most suited to original work. It's true--the versatility that is the Ex's charm encourages Innovation. And for most smaller-scale drama, the Ex is great. But to try to produce a full-scale musical there could be like booking the HRO for a concert in the Cafe Pamplona. Not only would the necessity of a large stage reduce the already small theater's audience capacity to about twenty, but the Ex is obviously acoustically wrong for large choruses. So recently, musicals have turned up sometimes in Agassiz Theater under the auspices of Radcliffe Grant...
...solid year now, Billboard's chart of bestselling classical LPs has been topped by Scott Joplin rags. Last week there was a surprising change: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring led the list. Though revolutionary when first performed in 1913, the work is now a cliché of concert programming; 28 stereo versions are currently available. It seems likely that ragtime fell not to Stravinsky but to Georg Solti, who leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Solti (TIME cover, May 7, 1973) has quietly become the most popular conductor since Toscanini. A Solti appearance is sold out at once anywhere...
...Smith Glee Club, and F. John's own talented Harvard Glee Club. A Mozart chamber work will also be on that program--the sublimely beautiful clarinet quintet, played by a group which includes David Kass and HRO competition winner Lynn Chang. Good Mozart performances are rare, so this concert should be a rare pleasure...