Word: lento
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Taylor, who studied and danced with Martha Graham for six years, was considered an avant-garde experimenter in choreographic Dada. He composed dances to the sound of rain, and once fashioned a piece in which a couple stood stock-still for four minutes. But in Taylor's Lento, one of the new pieces of his company's current season, his dancers weave gentle patterns to Haydn chamber music, as simple and charming as any moment from Les Sylphides. Another new work, called Agathe's Tale, commits an even stranger breach of experimentalist etiquette: it tells a story...
...Taylor, who studied and danced with Martha Graham for six years, was considered an avant-garde experimenter in choreographic Dada. He composed dances to the sound of rain, and once fashioned a piece in which a couple stood stock-still for four minutes. But in Taylor's Lento, one of the new pieces of his company's current season, his dancers weave gentle patterns to Haydn chamber music, as simple and charming as any moment from Les Sylphides. Another new work, called Agathe's Tale, commits an even stranger breach of experimentalist etiquette: it tells a story...
Sandra, though lento-paced and pretentious, does create a bewitching atmosphere of decadence. While the old, ordered world passes into limbo, Visconti savors every detail of a cavernous manse where each drafty, half-lit corridor and every gleaming bit of crystal augurs ill. But finally the decor becomes a bore, and even Visconti's human characters seem used up, lifeless, set into place like figures in a faded tapestry...
...John Barbirolli conducting the Halle Orchestra; Everyman). Sir John, maestro of both the Houston Symphony and the Halle of Manchester, gives a glowing performance of the too-little-heard impressionistic symphony called "The London." Here are pomp and pageantry, cockney airs, the chimes of Big Ben, and a luminous lento movement that the composer called "Bloomsbury Square on a November afternoon." The music also evokes an era; it was completed...
...pathetic tale of no particular significance. However, it is told with care and tenderness in this Italian film adapted from a novel by Vasco Pratolini. The pace is lento, sometimes troppo lento, but the color photography tactfully subtends the mood of green and yellow melancholy, and Director Valeric Zurlini develops a very real and moving relationship between the hero (Jacques Perrin) and his older brother (Marcello Mastroianni). It is fascinating to watch Mastroianni, who in his recent films (La Dolce Vita, La Notte, 8½) has emerged as the Clark Gable of existentialism, play a simple, decent human being...