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...those students who are continuing to aim at private practice, there is amazed delight. In the words of a makeshift poster that quickly appeared on one Harvard bulletin board...
GEORGE SZELL: MOZART PIANO QUARTETS (Odyssey). Some items in the splurge of re-releases of "historic performances" are a delight, and this one will remind listeners that the current conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra was no mean pianist in his day. George Szell essayed the dancing mysteries of Mozart with three members of the Budapest String Quartet (Mischa Schneider, Joseph Roismann and Boris Kroyt) in 1946; Szell's playing is sharply self-assured, setting a high-spirited pace for his excellent colleagues...
...Godard's rare best, that nonchalant imperviousness to precedent can provide the viewer with a shock of delight. There are sequences in his films that no other director would have dared to try, or could have brought off half so well: Alphaville's portrayal of the future as nightmare, achieved through location-shooting in present-day Paris; the bittersweet evocations of prewar Hollywood musicals in A Woman Is a Woman; the female mood of sensual boredom in The Married Woman...
...important is the growing triumph of the minimal outlook. As artists are increasingly dedicated to the belief that "less is more," they are in stinctively drawn to those raw materials that least impede the eye. The clear sculpture that results is meant to afford the viewer a purely sensual delight in the infinite variety of light, its perpetual diffractions, spontaneous diffusions and prismatic permutations that can go on forever...
Composed of 33 leggy young women and lithe young men (average age: 22), the Pennsylvania company is not yet long on polish but makes up for it with a springlike exuberance and clear delight in dancing. Since Barbara Weisberger is a former pupil of George Balanchine's, it was no surprise that her company bore a stylistic resemblance to the New York City Ballet; the Pennsylvania's repertory includes six stagings of Balanchine-created ballets...