Word: minuets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than a concerto conductor, since the Mozart offered him a chance to think like the concertmaster he used to be. The strings were together and the winds were together. If Laredo's choice of tempi was often less than daring, he made up for it by successfully turning the minuet into a scherzo. He seemed to want the fourth movement to sound like Mendelssohn's "Italian" symphony, with pleasing results...
...White House courtship of Kaye was never casual. While disguised as a social minuet, it was really part of a high-tech operation situated not far from the Oval Office and used to track and nurture potential donors to the President's re-election effort. Kaye's name was entered into a secret White House database under the designation "major contributor," a status befitting the $137,000 he gave to the Democratic cause last campaign. The filing system, dubbed WhoDB for White House Office Data Base, was used by Clinton's campaign team to stay on top of donors...
...frustrated, somebody tells him off, he gets the message and feels better. This is the method of nearly every scene in Patrick Sheane Duncan's script--as reductive and repetitive as a bad teacher's syllabus. And kids will learn things from Mr. Holland: the connection between Bach's Minuet in G Major and the '60s hit Lover's Concerto, how a white man can teach natural rhythm to a black athlete, the sign-language symbol for asshole. But mostly they will learn that films avoid the problems they pretend to confront. This...
...performers in "Smiles of a Summer Night" are uniformly fine, with Bjornstrand and Dahlbeck leading the elegiac minuet. Dahlbeck's face, no longer displaying the blush of youth, makes a great subject for the camera. While Bjornstrand's features oftern seem a mask concealing his ture emotions, Dahlbeck's face bears witness to all the joys and travails to which life has subjected her. Naima Wifstrand as old-Mrs. Armfeldt steals every scene she in which she appears; her impossibly wise old dragon is as good as anything Edna May Oliver ever did in Hollywood...
...Thomas as `cellist, Timothy Cob as bass,Thomas Hill as clarinet, Donald Bravo playingbassoon and Robert Rauch again on French horn, theintimacy of the ensemble prevented thesemiorchestral atmosphere of the piece, reinforcedby the setting of Sanders Theatre, fromoverwhelming its chamber aspects. The workconsists of the traditional four movementsFast-Slow-Minuet-Finale with two extra movements,a theme and variations and a scherzo, interposedas an extension between the third and final ones.While all of these were played with theappropriate character and balance, the fourthmovement, featuring solos on all of theinstruments, was particularly well performed; theclarinetist especially established his exquisitetone and phrasing...