Word: concert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elements that form the backbone of rock, and despite some personal problems (Danko was so strung out for two years, for example, that he got out of bed as seldom as possible) a devotion to excellence. Given these factors and the group's immense popularity, (The Band's last concert, a gala Thanksgiving Day bash, was attended by 500 people at San Francisco's Winterland last year) this much-heralded "Last Waltz" gig would make a great concert film, right...
TECHNICALLY, The Last Waltz is by and large superb. Scorsese is one of the most talented directors to come along in several years, and here he tried his hand at something entirely new. The concert footage is never boring; Scorsese carefully selects his shots and sequences so that the same pattern is rarely repeated. We are spared the usual audience shots and moronic neo-groovy short interviews with way-out folks in the stands. Scorsese's emphasis decidedly falls on the music, to the benefit of the final product...
...rediscovery, one of the most bizarre comebacks in music history, has been as rapid as was his fall half a century earlier. The tapes of that church concert, along with a few Liszt pieces recorded under studio conditions, have been released as a Nyiregyházi Plays Liszt (IPA/Desmar) record. Critics exclaimed over the strange, powerful playing. In two further sets of taping sessions, underwritten by the Ford Foundation, Nyiregyházi played Liszt and other romantics; record release is now being negotiated. Meanwhile, NBC will be featuring Nyiregyházi on its June 3 Weekend show. He emerges...
Nyiregyházi refuses to ride the new wave of publicity. He rules out concert appearances. Always a nervous performer, he is now terrified by audiences and can only play when in a sort of in spired trance. He fears criticism, to the point that he records only less-known romantic works and his own transcriptions of symphonic and operatic works. "Musicians have always disapproved of my style as too emotional, too idiosyncratic," he says. "So now I prefer to record works where no one can compare me to anyone else. I want to do only what I want...
...soon moves to a close-up of ecstatic neophytes screaming to their follow trainees that "I am here because I want to change." This presumed act of self-confession is greeted by a babel of resonating applause and general whooping reminiscent of the narcotics-induced pandemonium of a rock concert. But these people do not get off on junk or ganja, they get off on quaintly named exercises like psychocalisthenics, karma processing and catharsis for the Acceptance of Change. As we are assured by our guide on this sojurn into Aricaland, "The same general principles operating in the system...