Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It is very stale stuff, and, sadly, Bergman makes no more of it than the musical Cabaret did. It all comes out more picturesque than terrifying. Bergman, too, shows the developing monster through the eyes of an innocent, though this one lacks the lively intelligence of the young man in...
The film is an adaptation of a Paul Gallico story about a fledgling song-and-dance woman (Sissy Spacek) who enlists in a second-rate U.S.O. troupe during World War II. A shy orphan with a sweet smile and no discernible talent, Verna fervently believes that a U.S.O. tour overseas...
Beautiful sound and color are what Horowitz is really all about. Form and a unifying tempo matter less to him, and there were dallyings and wanderings in the second and third movements that would have been considered eccentric in any other pianist. The performance was marvelously spontaneous and without calculation...
MUSICAL CHAIRS by Schuyler Chapin Putnam; 448 pages; $12.50
Chapin, now dean of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, tells of all this in Musical Chairs. The author's candor and good humor have produced a compelling memoir. It should be required reading for anyone entering the contemporary music business-and for any young performer pondering...