Word: moderato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite a lot of fun. Marguerite Duras, who executed this excellent satire, has good credentials for the job. Besides writing the screenplays for Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Une Aussi Longue Absence she also attended the birth of the anti-novel movement, making such notable contributions to the genre as Moderato Cantabile and The Sea Wall. In her directorial debut, she has unfortunately committed one rather crucial error. She seems to have been the only one who didn't get her own joke...
Kirchner's Brahms was even more impressive. From the very beginning of the great Fourth Symphony, the conductor proved himself a master of nuance, varying his tempos flexibly. The tragic Andante moderato, with its famous Phrygian modality, was a gem. Opening furiously, the third movement, Allegro giocoso, joked only in its use of the triangle. The concluding Passacaglia, Allegro energico e passionato, was just that...
...them, and they are always genuinely relieved to see her come out the other side, once the movie is made. "The drama of her life is that there is no difference between her acting and her private life," says Producer Raoul Levy, uneasily recalling that during the shooting of Moderato Cantabile in 1960, she started drinking wine in the morning, duplicating the troubling habit of the suicidal character she played. Says her friend Marguerite Duras, who wrote Moderato: "She emerges from her films a convalescent, both physically and morally...
...admired. The cinema began to mean something to me beyond simply being an actress." Moreau went back to work with a passion, and in two years she made four films, among them three of her best: Les Liaísons Dangereuses, Le Dialogue des Carmélites, and Moderato Cantabile...
Swoboda made up for the rather overwhelming Giannini with a clear, clean interpretation of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony. Swoboda took the opening Allegro moderato at a leisurely, though defensible, tempo, modifying it as the music demanded. Michael Brenner, clarinet, and Barbara Cohen, oboe, reflected musical thoughtfulness and care in their solos opening and ending the second movement...