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...INTEREST of musical merit, Brahms's Fourth Symphony comprised the second half of the program. Flaws of intonation and ensemble marred the HRO's performance of this difficult standard work. But these were easily forgiven in the context of the HRO's energetic and enthusiastic playing. Dr. Yannatos never let the playing degenerate into a well-intentioned shambles, but firmly structured this potentially unwieldy masterpiece...
With the recent brouhaha about what extreme circumstances might prompt U.S. intervention in the Middle East and the revelations about the nature of covert CIA meddling in Chile and elsewhere, the Senators might be forgiven for seeing spooks under every bed. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey found the prospect "fraught with danger." Henry Jackson declared that the notion "completely baffled" him and demanded a Senate investigation...
...that campaign, Jackson was trying to give Democrats on the right and in the middle a choice between McGovern and George Wallace. This time Jackson is trying to put together a program appealing to all shades of Democrats, including liberals who have not forgiven him for backing the Viet Nam War and attacking McGovern but who are now in disarray and in search of a candidate...
Pondering all this, Carter can be forgiven for crying out, "Look, all I want to do is write my pieces, and to hell with the rest of it." With pop palliating the present and Muzak prophesying the future, Carter is understandably concerned about the dangerous gulf between serious music and the general audience. It helps, of course, that he has more fame than most, but essentially he has no choice. "It's a very simple thing. I was trained to be a composer. It gives my life some sense...
...moments like that, Brooks can be forgiven almost anything. He always furnishes plenty that needs forgiving, but his best scenes are madder, funnier, more inspired than anything being done in movies today, including the rather coddled comedy of Woody Allen. Brooks must also have got tired of people telling him what a maladroit technician he has been, and he has taken some pains to correct that failing here. Young Frankenstein is his best-crafted film so far. It contains uniformly excellent performances, among which Madeline Kahn's delicate but libidinous fiancee ranks high...