Word: melodrama
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...United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Leonardi Code," a backstage melodrama about murder and mind reading, with Sally Ann Howes and Barry Morse...
...virtue. One moment she plods through a witless musical routine about Pogo, the next she is braining Hero Harvey for ripping open her blouse (with cretinous whinnies of "Open sesame!"). And where it was right for the hero to blow his brains out in the book, it seems pure melodrama for him to rage off in the film to obloquy and oblivion on his trusty green motorcycle...
...sonorousness of the wind ensemble also encourages bombast and superficiality. A band can boom out a double forte very impressively, but too much of it makes music facile and eventually annoying. There was too much melodrama on Friday night's program, and none of it was particularly memorable because it remained flashily evocative rather than intense and expressive. Many of the works thus resembled too closely just that music the band wishes to make secondary...
...results of such adaptations can be. This, a Toccata, was written by Frescobaldi, but you wouldn't know it from the transcription. Like Stokowski's orchestral renditions of Bach organ music, the adaptation turned the freshness and grace of the 17th century toccata into trite 20th century melodrama. Walker added to the distortion by twisting the evenness of the melodic lines with Romantic nuances...
Advise and Consent. A vivid melodrama seldom below the surface but often behind the scenes of Washington politics...