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...Pure Love" is the longest cut on the album, and also the weakest. It is classically divided: fantasia, prelude, the main body, called "Pure Love," and finale. The fantasia and prelude are simply unnecessary. They only serve as a platform for some keyboard exercises. "Pure Love" is English blues at its worst. The English do not play blues well, even though we owe its revival to them. Most successful English blues is parody, like Humble Pie's nine minute travesty "I Wonder," which succeeds totally because it's so obviously a travesty. "Pure Love" takes itself too seriously...
...Fantasia, the Disney classic. Cinema Kenmore Square...
...Fantasia by Disney. Kenmore Square. Daily...
Daniel Stepner and Jay Gottlieb, violinist and pianist, playing Schubert's Fantasia, Bartok's Unaccompanied Violin, and Chausson's Poeme. Currier SCR. 8:30, April 21. Free...
Organist David Smith presented five works by Jan Sweelinck in two interludes during the program. The Fantasia Chromatica was the standout with its nearbaroque intensity and artifice finishing with an explosion of virtuoso figures. All five pieces were played with intelligence and imaginative registrations. Once again John Adams has provided an outstanding program, bringing together two of the area's very finest choral groups in a sensitive, thoughtful presentation. He did as much with sacred music as is possible in a distinctly secular...