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The Bartok works which concluded the program provided perhaps the most satisfying listening of the evening, simply because one never hears Bartok performed so sympathetically. Dissonance, so much a matter of course in the composer's style, was treated as such, rather than as a means of jolting the listener...
EXCEPT UNDER the most felicitious circumstances, it nearly always happens that ensembles of the genre piano trio readily become a battle of bowed and percussive strings. To begin with, one rarely hears a well-established trio--compositions of this type are more frequently presented by three soloistic virtuosi who, for...
Czechoslovakia is no longer regarded as a danger. The border with China is relatively dormant. Viet Nam, despite the mining of Haiphong, is being downplayed by the Soviet leadership. The byword is realism; the new necessity is to improve conditions at home. One hears it privately from friends and colleagues...
He grins even after he has been released from Bellevue, where he was committed after trying to strangle the superintendent of his apartment building. He was not, it seems, lodging a complaint about vermin and bad plumbing. His rage remains unexplained, and Norah, who has taken him in, is too...
Ruby, bored with her husband and their lecherous, nosy neighbor, puts on a dress one evening and takes off in her schoolbus for a bit of fun. At the local nightclub she hears Earl Tibbits, a slick, cheap singer played with just the right sliminess by Danny Kosow. She waits...