Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story revolves around a hapless family that has recently come to New York. The father (Camilo Delgado) is a guitarist who refuses to wash dishes for a living for fear of ruining his musician's fingers. The mother (Rosita de Triana) simmers in sad-eyed frustration. The son (Robert Gentile) tries to do an honest job as a grocery boy, but street gang punks torment and entangle him. The daughter (Greta Margos), a lissome, raven-haired beauty, gets work in a garment-factory loft, but the piggish foreman makes her earn her overtime pay with bodily favors. Her "promotion...
...Cambridge Civic Symphony Orchestra is a local group of some 64 people who cleverly describe themselves as "semi-professional" musicians. This is clever because no one, least of all a critic, knows just what a "semi-professional" musician is, and therefore can have no reasonable idea of just how good one ought to be. For this reason most critics will be nice, because even a music critic would rather appear nice than look confused. And so it goes...
...least so it went until Tuesday night. At that point the Cambridge Civic Symphony Orchestra committed the irreparable blunder of presenting a public concert which rather swiftly defined their status: a "semi-professional" musician, the world may at last know, is a poorish amateur musician who wants you to pay good money to hear him play...
...pieces he plays, the toughest is the Brandenburg No. 2: in the upper range it soars to G above high C, and wise conductors almost always cheat on the trumpet part and make do with an E-flat clarinet or a soprano saxophone. As distinguished a musician as the Vienna Philharmonic's Helmuth Wobisch has been known to enlist a second trumpeter to negotiate the concerto's lower passages while he concentrated on the high ones...
What is lacking in Basehart's performance is sufficient feeling for the glorious music of Richard's speech. From his first Wales scene to the end, the play is a cantata with Richard as soloist. Richard is above all a poet-musician; he prefers ears to spears, couplets to doublets, books to hooks, writing to fighting, rhyme to grime. Basehart does not sing well enough...