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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SIEGFRIED IDYLL; HINDEMITH: TRAUERMUSIK (Angel). This is an intimate and unpretentious performance, largely due to the warmth that Daniel Barenboim elicits from the English Chamber Orchestra. The Siegfried Idyll sounds like what it was meant to be: a lullaby. The Schoenberg piece, one of the composer's very early works, and Hindemith's mourning music for viola and strings, have great spirit. Barenboim's first recording of modern works augurs well for the future...
ENDERBY, by Anthony Burgess. In this retouching of an earlier portrait of the artist as a middle-aged gasbag, the gifted English novelist combines the elements of entertainment and enlightenment with uncommon artistry...
...nice when things go smoothly on a movie set-when temperament doesn't rise up and take over. Note the scene in Italy, for instance, where Marcello Mastroianni, 43, and Faye Dunaway, 27, are filming A Place for Lovers for Vittorio De Sica. She helps him with his English. He helps her with Italian slang. They both help each other with their diets. They trade compliments: he likes her eyebrows, she likes making movies in his country. And there haven't even been any of those snippy romance-is-in-the-air rumors buzzing around. Says Faye...
...newscast on Pasadena's radio station KRLA led off with the story of the Pope's encyclical on birth control. Then followed the strains of an oboe, flute and English-horn trio that sounded like the walk-in to a commercial jingle-until listeners heard a solemn voice chanting...
...London stage mirrors the transatlantic crisis in theater. Appraising current English offerings, TIME'S drama critic T. E. Kalem finds that established playwrights are mute or faltering, while younger talents fail to fulfill their promise. There is a constant tremor of faddish experiments, but no significant explosion of creative energy. The measure of how much is expected of the stage is that everyone complains...