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...imitative. His musical ideas are original and he expresses them in a carefully thought-out, effective manner. The Suite contains a wealth of ingenious rhythmic and structural patterns, yet their variety never endangers the unity of the work as a whole. The deeply-felt final adagio--rising to a loftier, more intense level of expression than any of the other movements--seemed to be the consummation of ideas expressed in the contemplative opening movement and the rhythmically fascinating, sometimes barbaric second movement. A superb performance by Robert Wolverton and Mr. Rickard showed to full advantage the composer's expert scoring...
...Haven reaction to the totalitarian rule came swift and vicious. Only the Yale Daily New was vociferous in its backing of the law. "It is, we submit, a good thing and conducive to a loftier degree of civilization in the manners and mores of Yale alumni," pontificated the News...
Disappointing as spectacle, David and Bathsheba is no more successful in its frank tale of adultery. Even the most sensational episodes are weighted down with portentous airs and long-winded prattle, and while the picture gathers an ever loftier mood of religiosity, David and Bathsheba seem to spend nearly as much time suffering and repenting their sins as committing them...
...until two years before the end, Wood's work was shamelessly eclectic. Then, at little resorts on the coasts of Brittany and Cornwall, he learned to paint nudes and landscapes in a nice, decorative, pleasant style of his own. London Sunday Times Critic Eric Newton has supplied some loftier adjectives for it. "One must be content," he wrote, taking a deep breath, "with saying that Christopher Wood possessed the gift of making everyday things both magical and mystical, and of performing the miracle endlessly. The ingredients of his magic are things available to us all-boats, white houses, stone...
...past two months, U.S. televiewers have been getting a drama diet with a loftier intellectual content than that of Broadway. The high-vitamin source is Masterpiece Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC-TV), which began its experimental run with Ibsen's suicidal Hedda Gabler and ends it this month with Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. This week, for its sixth performance, Masterpiece staged a fast-paced, absorbing performance of Shakespeare's Othello...