Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...satisfaction and enjoyment, rather than the nine to five grind which claims so many veterans of higher education. The house is a home stocked with love and companionship a haven for countless friends and children of the neighborhood, a small community whose population is impossible to estimate. Behind this joy lurking in the paradise, is the real possibility of making concessions to the world outside the door. Once again, George speaks for the band; he sits in a living room lit only by the television, surrounded by guitars, music, and friends. The hockey game clicks away; the strains...
...example, the sprightly If You've Only Got a Moustache, which could have been written by Schubert. Also Wilt Thou Be Gone, Love?, an Italianate duet for Romeo and Juliet. And many more, including, of course, Beautiful Dreamer and Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair. Adding to the joy of the album are the authentic accompaniments, played on an 1850 Chickering piano, melodeon, keyed bugle and other instruments at Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
...turns out to be Chopin's Revolutionary Etude done up in the sex and violence of an 007 film's sound track. Ludwig's Gig is a lush snippet from Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony; Superjoy, an electronically extravagant "lift" of Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring; Wild Turkey, a toe-tapping treatment of Mozart's Turkish Rondo, and so on. Of its jazzing-the-classics type, basically an appalling genre, this is better than most, and the stereo sound from one of RCA's new quadradiscs is stunning...
Beethoven, The Five Cello and Piano Sonatas (Cellist Pierre Fournier, Pianist Artur Schnabel; Seraphim, 2 LPs, $5.96). Whether darkly probing his psyche or demonstrating sheer joy, Beethoven was a composer who believed that music should be dramatic and expressive. So, fortunately, do Fournier and Schnabel, in this historic collaboration dating from 1948, now issued in its entirety for the first time on an American LP. It is hereby recommended as an antidote for today's "cool" and bloodless school of Beethoven interpretation...
...whole generation in this 1955 teenage melodrama. Cast includes Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo and Dennis Hopper, CH, 56, 8 p.m. Color, 2 hrs, The African Queen, Bogart and Hepburn in the 1951 lady and the tramp classic. Directed by John Huston and scripted by James Agee. A joy to watch. CH. 7, 9 p.m. Color...