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...Hill installs as his new board of directors all the little people who helped him beat his deadline - a widow, a kindly barfly, a dispossessed rancher, a cable-car conductor, and so on. The Frank Capra of Mr. Deeds would have used this simplistic notion to say something stirring, if sentimental, about social inequities and financial gouging. Here the situation is squandered for a few strained jokes. The viewer is left with the uncharitable suspicion that the conglomerate - and the film - would have been better off in the hands of experts with less good intentions...
Though Caldwell's career as a symphonic conductor continues to flourish (she made her Boston Symphony debut in January), she is a musician who belongs to the stage. She knows how to underscore the big moments in an opera and camouflage the weak ones. Russlan may have its dull moments, but they were hard to detect at Boston's Orpheum Theater, the shabby old moviehouse that currently shelters Sarah and her troupe. Fire belched from a dragon's mouth. A huge severed head blinked a bloodshot eye and sang. Horses flew. So did a witch...
Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops, who handed the microphone over to Ozawa last week, declared that the freedom, peace, and music that made Tanglewood a favorite tourist resort area in the state (second only to Cape Cod) would be destroyed by the prison installment. "It's taken many years to build up a facility like Tanglewood," Fielder said. "To place a prison across the road from it would ruin the whole thing overnight...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's concert Saturday night was a relatively good performance of an intriguing program that could have been played in just a slightly more inspired fashion. The orchestra, under conductor Yames Yannatos, gave a generally spirited performance of Britten, Gershwin and Mussorgsky. Soloist John Melnyk's performance of the Gershwin Piano Concerto in F was a fine combination of control and verve which highlighted the evening. But the feeling and dynamic playing which a work such as "Pictures at an Exhibition" can evoke even in its less energetic passages did not always appear in what otherwise...
...strings in "Hankin Booby" constrasted interestingly with the sudden intrusions of the tympani; the orchestra's evocative and controlled playing in this second part was particularly fine and beautiful. The lyrical elegance which suffuses Britten's work appeared most notably in the last part, "Hunt the Squirrel," in which conductor Yannatos had the players emphasize nicely the passages of the strings vying against each other...