Word: motifs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dash, recommended it as a signal for calling waiters, knocking on doors, blowing auto horns, bugles and train whistles. Soon that tat-tat-tat-too was heard all over Europe. He told them to call for Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, whose opening "fate-knocks-at-the-door" motif is three short bars and one long one. Beethoven V became a peculiarly popular concert piece...
...Sanders Theatre concert this year features on the first half of the program a collection of English elegaic music from different periods. Starting with a Byrd motet, there is music by Tallis, Dr. Arne, Francis Ireland, and Gustave Holst, and it is fascinating to observe how the elegaic motif is treated by each composer, always successfully, but in entirely different ways. The magnificent Byrd motet, Iustorum Animae, probably the finest music on the program, sums up in its short pages all the serenity and breadth of sixteenth-century classicism. With a bare economy of notes, it builds up by means...
...goddam, ends (several minutes later) in total verbal annihilation. Fellow authors like Booth Tarkington, Ben Ames Williams, Samuel Blythe have publicized these tantrums with such glee that the suspicion has grown that Roberts rages are also literary, less an adrenalin effusion than a character signature like Wotan's motif in the Nibelungen Ring...
...oldtime Musical Director A. Edward Sutherland conducted the actors through the story by the late Earl Derr Biggers. Top-flight Cinematographer Joseph Valentine ran the camera. Yet together, this combination of Hollywood's ablest backstage talent accomplished no more than a jumbled exaggeration of the Boy Meets Girl motif with scattered comic turns by Radio Zanies Abbott and Costello...
...ambitious program of six plays running through the fall, the Theatre of the Fifteen is bringing to Boston "phases of the American scene" from Broadway jazz alligators to Hollywood glamour-boys. The No. 1 motif, which is Martha Pittenger's "A Man From The Band," concentrates on the Eastern seaboard, and, in particular, on a toney New York apartment where American-Rich-Girl-Number-Four marries a piano player and tries to reconcile the age-old differences between their opposing ways of life...