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Unlike the only extant recording of the Concerto (also conducted by Kirchner), this performance did not obliterate practically everything but the solo violin and cello. Joseph Silverstein, violin, and Madeline Foley, cello, and the other instrumentalists, members of the Boston Symphony, sounded clearly and, thanks to Kirchner's careful direction, at the right times...
...nightmarish horror surrounding the ark, he suggests, conjures up the specter of modern-day thermonuclear destruction. And Noah collaborated with God in the destruction of all other life, leading to the question of how many potential nuclear-age Noahs, who fancy they have a direct line to God, are extant...
...anecdote and memoir, The Wine Is Bitter makes enjoyable reading. As a work representative of an era in American thinking, it is, perhaps, more significant. It documents a spirit, a prejudice, extant in America today. Marketed as political science, though, its profundity falls short of the ambassadorial level...
...agonizing intensity. Seated in the darkened theater, he holds on his lap a stenographer's note pad and jots down scribbles that look to anyone else like a kind of obscure Sanskrit patois. The picture itself is only part of his research. He wants every piece of material extant about the film-the original book, biographies of the performers, reports from correspondents on the making and makers of the picture, even handouts. Thus, when he wondered how some Japanese film makers got the effect of blood gushing from a samurai victim's chest, a report from the Tokyo...
...bone), Ruddigore is a good example of middleweight G. and S. with Glibert's jibes at Gothic melodrama complemented by some wonderfully quasi-Wagnerian effects by Sullivan. Purists might object to Director Robert Gibson's use of the shorter and weaker of the two second act finales extant and to his omission of the charming duet, "The Battle's Roar Is Over," but by any standards the production is a success...