Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Orchestrated Piano. Last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, as he and the Israel Philharmonic launched the orchestra's 15-city North American tour, Barenboim created a sound-world for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 that showed how far beyond mere dexterity his technique goes.* Threading themes together, balancing passages against each other, molding the contours of the composition, he displayed a sensitivity and sense of structure that are lacking in many musicians twice his age. "Unless I feel the totality of the thing," he explains, "I can't understand what's going...
Already plans are going ahead for a huge reflecting basin at the base of the Capitol (a new freeway will be routed underneath the basin). Elsewhere, plans are being developed for underground parking for 25,000 cars, which at present clog the Mall and surround the Lincoln Memorial with a carbon-monoxide sea at rush hour. Funds are also now available for the Pershing Monument, which will serve as the nucleus for a new National Center at the White House end of Pennsylvania Avenue. And as of last week, most of the go ahead signals had been given for three...
...Mall 50 years ago, and Bunshaft emphasizes this by projecting across the Mall a 500-ft.-long reflecting pool surrounded by broad walkways for outdoor sculpture displays. But he had no desire to interrupt the two-mile vista that stretches from the Capitol past the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial-a vista Bunshaft considers "one of the greatest in all architecture." Instead, he has sunk the pool and sculpture area 7 ft. below the Mall level. So vast are distances in official Washington that the 7-ft. dip will appear, if at all, as the merest line across...
...this swirling about of words and self-consciousness of diction is not backed by vital dialogue and stirring speech. Quotes from the Bible, Lincoln and Shakespeare steal the show through the force of clean language. All Kirstein leaves us is the vague impression that there is something semantic...
...plotless show in dead voices doesn't leave performers much room. John Lithgow as Lincoln was the only member of the able cast called upon to act. His Lincoln had a frontier body and a lawyer's voice. The excessive makeup limited his face somewhat, but his Abe was a spark of life in a dead play. Kirstein, however, gave him nothing to live for so he went out and had himself shot...