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...piece. Written slightly over a decade before the Sessions Quintet, the Trio is possibly even more severe in idiom. Where the Sessions is expansive, the Schoenberg is concentrated, pithy, intense. Contrasts are much more frequent and stark, with ferocity and elegy following in close succession in a kind of mosaic sound. Schoenberg's use of effects such as tremolo, col legno and harmonics is absolutely chilling...
...score of whirling spools, globes and spheroids. Again the form outstrips the content: what delights the eye is just another Iron Curtain version of the old love story of man and factory, uniting to turn out ingots, pencils and marzipan. Diapolyecran is a 32-ft. by 20-ft. mosaic composed of 112 huge cubes, each equipped with its own interior slide projector. Wittily presenting a pageant of primitive mammals, insects and Neanderthalers, it moves on to show modern man dwarfed by the machines he has produced. Appropriately, every movement of Diapolyecran has been programmed by computer...
MADE IN ITALY. Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi and Catherine Spaak are among the stars of this mosaic of modern Italy that blends humor, irony and pathos...
MADE IN ITALY. Anna Magnani, Alberto Sordi, Virna Lisi and Catherine Spaak are among the stars of this mosaic of modern Italy that blends humor, irony and pathos...
MADE IN ITALY. Italian Director Nanni Loy (Four Days of Naples) has pieced together a mosaic of ironic episodes to portray modern Italy. Best of an interesting lot: the scene in which Anna Magnani tries to herd her family across a busy Italian boulevard...