Word: concerto
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...first skaters to reach Grinkov's side after he collapsed during a Nov. 20 morning practice at the Lake Placid Olympic Center for the upcoming Stars on Ice tour. Grinkov and Gordeeva had been rehearsing a program set to the music of Edvard Grieg's Concerto in A Minor. (Coincidentally, Grieg's wife Nina, a singer, was his professional partner.) After the routine, Sergei told Katia he was dizzy and slumped to the ice. For the first time since they began skating together in 1982, it was Gordeeva who softened Grinkov's fall...
Claude Lelouch's film, which relocates the French national epic in the 20th century, mostly during World War II, also has all the defects those virtues imply. It is full of absurd coincidences, broadly archetypal characters and situations (yes, a Nazi thumps out a piano concerto while a prisoner is being tortured nearby), and a sentimentality that verges at times on the woozy. It's as if the writer-director, who in certain high-toned circles will never be forgiven for making A Man and a Woman, had never heard of modernism, let alone postmodernism...
...virtues," says TIME's Richard Schickel. Claude Lelouch's film, the seventh screen adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel, relocates to the 20th century, mostly during World War II. "The film is full of absurd coincidences, broadly archetypal characters and situations (yes, a Nazi thumps out a piano concerto while a prisoner is being tortured nearby), and a sentimentality that verges at times on the woozy," says Schickel. "Yet, it's more sophisticated than the feelings it evokes, and infinitely more compelling than you can imagine a film derived from such a familiar source might be. How pleasurable...
...forging a common emotional bond among listeners of all classes--the spreading of the ideas was more important than the actual listening. Pop classical might not convey composers' ideas in the most traditional form, but it does the job nonetheless. If someone enjoys a movement of a Vivaldi concerto on a pop classical disc, perhaps they'll want to buy a complete or "better" recording, and then perhaps they'll listen to Vivaldi's contemporaries, and perhaps later his successors. This process contributes to classical music's continuing existence; the growth of its audience, no matter how humble the beginnings...
...addition to performing live concerts in seven cities, Jarrett, 50, is simultaneously releasing a six-CD set, Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note, featuring his trio's nuanced performances of jazz standards. His "classical" repertoire, moreover, encompasses music from Bach to Bartok; last summer he performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Boston Symphony, and he has just released a disc of suites for keyboard by Handel. Always a difficult composer to pigeonhole--he is scornful of minimalism, which his music sometimes resembles, and calls New Age music, which some profess to hear adumbrated in his solo improvisations, "Jell...