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...Evening With Three Romantics," the sweeping Tchaikovsky B-flat minor concerto figures to be the most accessible and romantic offering. Listeners' ears have changed much since the concerto's premiere in Boston more than a century ago, after which the work was hailed as "extremely difficult, strange, wild, ultra-modern," and, "like the first pancake, a flop...
...first Tchaikovsky competition, which required performance of the concerto. Since then, with the rise in competitions' importance, the work has become one of the most overplayed of all repertoire staples. The passion and fervor of the work, which seemed so wild and new in 1875, can strike the jaded modern ear as overworn and even vacuous...
Besides the Tchaikovsky concerto, tonight's concert will include Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, music with wondrous sonorities and rich modulations, and the "Inextinguishable" symphony of the Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), which promises to be the most "modern"--not to say "unromantic"--work of the evening...
...Smith as the Politician (who is supposed to be Sen. Joseph McCarthy) gives new meaning to the word corrupt. His Southern drawl oozes with slime and blackmail. Despite his choir boy looks and white summer suit, he has the moral code of a modern-day Mephistopheles...
Perhaps Reagan, JFK and FDR are to blame for this travesty of the political process. The efforts of these three men so finely tuned modern political tools of mass communication that we've forgotten that presidents are just citizens. Now, they're just an electron-etched face placed next to a bust of Lincoln. Let's face it, we're spoiled. Candidates have to meet our mass-culture image of the presidency to be considered worthy of our vote...