Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moviegoers could not only hear, say, Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, conducted by Maestro Leopold Stokowski and recorded in stereophonic sound (then a rarity in film exhibition), but also see it brought to life as a titanic dinosaur duel. A man of artistic ambitions--pretensions, if you will--Disney had a missionary fervor to bring fine music, mediated by his own exquisite middle-brow instincts, to the masses. "Gee," he gushed when he saw one segment of Fantasia, "this'll make Beethoven...
...fostered by training in Paris in the 1870s, at the teaching atelier of Emile Carolus-Duran. Very much the maestro and dandy, Carolus-Duran focused his method on a near monomaniac attention to direct tonal painting, almost the opposite of color-based Impressionism. "Velazquez, Velazquez, Velazquez," he intoned, "ceaselessly study Velazquez." And from that study, Sargent got three of the major traits of his style. The first was a consummate skill in rendering objects and people bathed in space and low light. The second was its apparent straightforwardness--its ability to make a gesture count, to "knock in" the folds...
Starring Mario Suarez and Mia Maestro...
...work aspects of his own life, including the pain of his recent marital separation from the talented dancer Laura Fuentes, as well as his growing passion for the ingenue Elena--a role played with a brilliant combination of sensitivity and seduction by 22-year old Argentine actress Mia Maestro in her film debut. But the main character is none of these, for it is the tango itself that dominates the scene, controlling the dancers and manipulating their emotions even as they struggle to master its sinuous moves...
There were three blind mice, three little pigs and three Stooges. And after tonight, there will have been three Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra subscription concerts. Perhaps coincidentally, conductor Maestro James Yannatos will lead the Orchestra as they play Pistons Symphony No. 3 as well as Don Juan by Strauss. But wait. That's not all. Professor Mark Devoto and Professor Emeritus Eliot Forbes will give a pre-concert lecture. Sanders Theatre. Tickets 496-2222. Concert at 8 p.m., lecture at 7 p.m. $8-$13 general, $6-$10 for students...