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...smog. Others wearied of the apocalyptic warnings of the "New Jeremiahs" ?ecologists with an almost masochistic appetite for doom, and demographers with passion for slogans ("Stop at two"). Even ecologists scoffed at faddists who denounced colored toilet paper on the theory that the dyes polluted rivers. "Poppycock!" said Du Pont's chemists, and no other experts disagreed. UNIVERSAL YEARNING. Yet the backlash soon waned. Whatever exaggerations may have been committed by the environmental evangelists, no one could really scoff at the new American concern with "the quality of life," the universal yearning for clean air and water, quiet cities...
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (Columbia); Debussy: Pel leas et Melisande; 3 LPs (Columbia). Under the baton of that red-blooded logician, Pierre Boulez, all is rite in Stravinsky's polysavage world and all is light in Debussy's interplay between symbol and reality...
...auteur theory of film criticism has gone through many transformations since its initial conception. For Andre Bazin and his Cahiers du Cinema scions in the 40's and 50's, approaching a film as if it were creatively guided by a single intelligence-preferably that of the director-provided opportunities for scholarly, disciplined film thought. Just as a modern writer is judged more by an oeuvre, his body of work, than by a single masterpiece, the Cahiers critics traced continual directorial themes and motifs, evaluating the creator's relationship to his subject by the manner in which it was visually...
Like Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, the Barenboim and Du Pré team proves that the sight and sound of two brilliant artists conquering continents hand in hand has a magical allure all its own. But there is far more to these players than such allure. Today Jacqueline's cello playing is a marvel of tonal beauty and instinctive emotion, backed by a prodigious technical grasp. As aurorally mellow as the late Emanuel Feuermann, as powerful of phrase as one of her former mentors Pablo Casals, Jacqueline is one of the most eloquent and soulful cellists alive...
...their public careers were not enough, Du Pré and Barenboim are the magnetic center for a clubby group of musical jet-setters known affectionately and with some envy as the "musical mafia." It consists of Ashkenazy, Violinists Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman, plus Mehta, who is reliably reported to play a mean double bass. The group meets four or five times a year to play chamber music. "We are more than friends," says Mehta. "If there could be something like a family outside a family, that's what we have...