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...Francisco's Grace Cathedral, Pianist Vince Guaraldi took Anglican plain chant as his starting point. The flowing Gregorian tunes were chanted by a 68-member chorus while Guaraldi improvised back of it with his trio, shifting the mood with the spirit of the prayer. "Lord, Have Mercy" is crisp and plaintive, with a syncopated Latin rhythm; the Communion anthem is a waltzlike blues with a flowing melodic line. The "Theme for Grace" at the Offertory, with a chorus crooning the syllables of "hallelujah," reminded some listeners of mood-setting supper music. "That's the idea," says Episcopal Father...
...strapping, hamhanded man with slicked-back hair and brooding mustache, Michelangeli ambled onstage with the baleful nonchalance of a boxer bent on mayhem. Once he settled at the keyboard, his touch was featherweight light, his attack crisp and restrained through Debussy's liquid Images and Beethoven's soaring Sonata in C Major (Opus 2, No. 3). After two encores and a dozen curtain calls, he unconcernedly ambled offstage to a standing ovation. Typically, following his triumph, he repaired last week to the regenerative quietude of a month-long teaching engagement at Siena's Accademia Musicale Chigiana. Untypically...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.).* This Could Be the Night (MGM, 1957), a singularly crisp, sophisticated comedy in which Jean Simmons plays a schoolteacher who takes a part-time job in a nightclub owned by Paul Douglas and Anthony Franciosa...
BEETHOVEN: QUARTET IN A MINOR OPUS 132 (RCA Victor). This intricate work was written 25 years after the septet and sounds a world apart, especially in this crisp, exact performance by the Juilliard String Quartet. Technically, the Juilliard is superb; the pianissimo passages, for example, are feather-light and still warm, but the third movement, the "song of thanksgiving offered to the divinity by a convalescent," sounds curiously reserved...
...Flying Machines. Terry-Thomas has another film about to be released and a fourth scheduled. Making an appearance last week as a TV narrator, he injected some sly Saxon humor into an ABC documentary on gambling by extolling the outdoor life of the English racing tout: "Ah, the fine, crisp crinkle of pound notes in the clean air!" That was the real Terry-Thomas talking...