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...DEAR MAESTRO Directed and Written by Luciano Odorisio...
...wife (Giuliana De Sio) tries to advance his cause by sleeping with a town councilor. Less obviously needy, Andrea pursues the job with a worldly resignation that contrasts to good dramatic effect with his rival's cookie-tossing eagerness for it. Luciano Odorisio's Dear Maestro is not much to look at, but it is shrewd in its examination of how envious small-town gossip exacerbates a contest that neither participant wants, compassionate about men standing on the cusp of middle age, still scrambling to keep their dreams glimmering, and pleasingly ironic in the way it works...
...What finer homage to Pianist Arthur Rubinstein on reaching 92? For 17 hours Radio France broadcast Rubinstein's greatest performances, followed by a live concert at Paris' Theatre des Champs-Elysees programmed by the maestro himself. "Composing a concert is like composing a menu," he announced, explaining his choices of Debussy, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Mozart and Schubert. "I believe in musical digestion. If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Chateaubriand and vegetables." 1980: Life...
...parade through the middle of town in a 1928 antique Ford, and went on to include a stop at the old family home (24 Juniper Street). As passionate about political issues as he is on the podium, Bernstein strongly endorsed the nuclear freeze movement in a speech. But the maestro was irked by Senator Edward Kennedy's failure to show up and disappointed that high winds had canceled an 18-minute fireworks display, which may have partly explained his verve in decrying the "lunacy" of the nuclear arms race. Cracked Bernstein afterward: "There had to be some fireworks...
...Boston over the past 15 years. He had purchased for that evening, May 26, a monopoly on area commercial airwaves between 6:55 p.m. and 7 p.m. The purpose was to announce whether or not he would run for an unprecedented fifth term. And, to the end the maestro of manipulation and drama, he kept the momentous decision virtually a secret until more than halfway through his videotaped speech. He finally indicated his choice by saying. "There does come a time in the life of every man when change is appropriate, and that time has come for me." With those...