Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason why Sgt. Pepper should be a shackling precedent for whatever follows. But when the foursome meander from style to style without any apparent guiding objective or sense of urgency, they seem to be substituting synthetics for synthesis. Even their renewed interest in the song styles of the English music hall and rhythm and blues-one of the album's most attractive features-is slightly tainted. In the hollow Yer Blues or the sentimental While My Guitar Gently Weeps, the longing for roots is too calculated, like the urban sophisticate's nostalgia for the primitive...
...piece for today is Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole. Galamian nods and sings along, sometimes snapping his fingers to indicate rhythm. His few comments are deceptively simple. "Intonation," he murmurs, or, "That's it, that's it." When something goes wrong, he raises an eyebrow; the music stops cold. Then he picks up his 1680 Nicola Amati violin and, filling the room with a full, rich tone, shows how the passage should sound. "Mark that," he says...
Galamian's theory is that suffering through exercises liberates a student to go on later and develop his own musical personality. Cry now, play later, is the plan. "Some people say he is all technique and no music," says Itzhak Perlman, "but I say he shows you the way to produce the sound you need. Then he inspires you to have your own ideas." He approaches each student like one of the chess problems he is so good at, and he tailors each solution to individual talents and temperaments. And the students all agree that he is gentle...
...Peterson to be heard when Craig's fingers embellish a tender ballad with filigree tinsel. But there is a lot of Mozart in early Beethoven too, and nobody complains much about that. As a pianist, Craig lacks only the maturity that age will bring. And nobody in the music world doubts his ability to get exactly what he wants...
...Boston Strangler--Believe, your worst suspicions. At the MUSIC HALL, Tremont St. near Stuart...