Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music was, if not false, secondary to an untested talent for writing. The result might well have been a damp dollop of self-pity; A Vision of Battlements is anything but that. It is a high-spirited cadenza amid the brassy cacophony of war, played by a born verbal musician. Among the fictional souvenirs of World War II, mostly heavy, khaki-colored, lugubrious and dull, this is a glittering bit of Faberge loot-a bauble to defeat boredom. It also marks the first creation, though not publication (which was delayed 16 years), of the anti-hero in postwar fiction...
...happy creation of Schickele, a composer and former teacher. The concert was a sometimes broad but always knowing lampoon of baroque music, carried off with just enough expertise to border on the believable. Some of the musical jokes, excellently played by a 20-piece orchestra of professional musicians, only a musician would understand. Others, such as the Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, any listener could enjoy. Treading on every musical cliché, fugues began and went nowhere, arias seesawed off and on key, and when a climax was needed, Schickele chimed in with a hoot from a Seven...
MARCEL MARCEAU is a stylish musician of motion, an exciting architect of space, an eloquent poet of silence. He is the panto mimic accountant of the laughably saddening costs of being human, with the knowledge that no matter how funny the pratfall, the heart is where the hurt...
MARCEL MARCEAU is a stylish musician of motion, an exciting architect of space, an eloquent poet of silence. He is the pantomimic accountant of the laughably saddening costs of being human, with the knowledge that no matter how funny the pratfall, the heart is where the hurt...
...infamous programme for Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique consists of the strange visions of an "oversensitive young musician" who poisoned himself with opium. From the opening bars onward, our wonder grows: Where is the sensitivity? Where is the musician? Ah, but this irresistable old war-horse (or more accurately, warpig) has finally gotten the treatment it deserves. For the honest few who revere the Symphony not as serious music but as a macabre, hilarious circus, the HRO's performance was mad bliss. After a reasonably straight face through the verbose Reveries, the drippy waltz of the Ball episode, and the charmingly empty...