Word: lyres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lute, Flute, Lyre, and Sackbut is one of the least sophisticated shows ever put on at Harvard. And in a community where the standard fare is often overly scholastic and unduly pretentious, this might be viewed as welcome relief. But it should not be; there is a middle ground between boring everyone stiff and pandering to the least common denominator of intelligence that Lute, Flute has not found...
...score only as background music. But Fanny never makes the weight: all chance for the love story to be intimate and believable is lost at the outset. Part of the trouble is that the color camera is an awkward renderer of wry legends; it is a sousaphone, not a lyre. Another part is on-location filming-Logan paid too much attention to the location. As the movie begins, the camera swoops down for an aerial view of the blue, cluttered, ever-so-quaint Marseilles harbor. From that point the viewer is a tourist, charmed by the view, worried about losing...
...taught me," says Camus, "that the heart beats to the vibrations of the sevenstringed lyre of Orpheus, representing the seven planets. The vibrations are vital." With Camus' wife, the master was killed during World War II. Camus today will not even reveal his name, but includes an aging "master figure" in each of his films (the present one is an old Negro he came upon in Bahia...
...moment crashes through canebrake like an express train, and the next sits placidly sucking a palm stalk ; a vast herd of zebras plunging, as they plunge in Roy Campbell's vivid sonnet, "Barred with electric tremors through the grass/ Like wind along the gold strings of a lyre...