Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liszt's Fifth by Beethoven. In his concert days, when he was not singing along, Gould liked to conduct himself with whichever hand he could free at any moment. So it is not surprising that he has finally got around to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The piano transcription was written by Keyboard Demon Franz Liszt, meaning that both hands are too busy for shenanigans. Gould plays it in respectful dedication to both Liszt and Beethoven. The Fifth is largely free of Liszt's frequent pianistic bombastics and remarkably faithful to the original-save for an occasional missing...
...footsore from his strenuous campaign (27 races in two years) and has also been scratched. There is no shortage of favorite sons: Derby officials predict a field of 17 horses, most of whose owners would happily settle for second spot on a parimutuel ticket. At the moment, the Derby looks like a two-horse race-between a front runner who has scored four stakes victories this year, and a come-from-behind colt with connections in Massachusetts and New York...
...some 30 million bushes throughout the world. "How strange to think," wrote Francis Meilland in his diary, "that all these millions of rosebushes sprang from a tiny seed no bigger than the head of a pin-a seed we might so easily have overlooked or neglected in a moment of inattention, or which might have been relished as a tidbit by some hungry field mouse...
...ensemble, they share only one common fault, perhaps an inevitable consequence of the production's drive for lucidity: at one time or another, most of the actors show a tendency to declaim rather than converse. As a result, the overall pacing of dialogue is sometimes slowed, and an occasional moment of insight or laughter is dimmed by pretentious delivery. Far more often, however, the line readings succeed in translating Shaw's stylized dialogue exchanges into natural and convincing scenes...
...inexperienced, the effect is of posing rather than acting. Valentine Callahan is too much the effusive matron, Richard Deutsch too much the urbane globetrotter, Howard Beale altogether too much the wise but enigmatic doctor. It is as though everyone is expecting a photographer to take his picture at any moment, and by God, he's not going to be caught looking out of character when the flashbulb goes...