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...Jesse Jackson. He made the gender of the vice-presidential candidate a key issue, so that Mondale's choice seemed politically astute rather than eccentric. He got minorities to register and then endorsed Mondale, and he awakened depths of emotion and color in his fellow candidate that even Fritz did not know were there...
...transcending moments, the big speeches, television is at its best. In San Francisco, these speeches were endlessly ballyhooed in advance in the irritating way television plugs prizefights or sitcoms to come. But if this iteration helped swell the crowd to hear the oratory of Governor Cuomo, Jesse Jackson or Fritz Mondale, much can be forgiven. These fine speeches reminded us that a skilled orator, adjusting intuitively to the crowd's response, employs a different and more demanding art than the numbing nattering of commentators. Television talk has been memorably defined by ABC's Sam Donaldson...
Gerry will be Fritz's Folly...
...evocation of the party's melting-pot past to Jesse Jackson's sweaty, moving, 51-minute tour de force to Geraldine Ferraro's winning performance in her unaccustomed role as history maker, the Democrats put on a sizzler of a show. And to end it, even Fritz Mondale, with his vision of opening doors to the future, gave what may have been the best speech of his life, one that he had honed through no fewer than 15 drafts...
...real surprise here is the cadenzas by Alfred Schnittke, a contemporary Soviet composer championed by Kremer. Schnittke's adventurous interludes are a modern commentary on Beethoven's themes and provide a welcome, if at first startling, respite from the usual cadenzas by Joseph Joachim and Fritz Kreisler. This is avant-garde Beethoven with a vengeance that causes the listener to sit up and pay attention to the music. It's about time. -By Michael Walsh