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The overture is followed by four briefer movements. Of these, the most famous is the air, better known--and better forgotten--in its romanticized solo version as the "Air for the G String." The orchestra played superbly: enormous lyricism and sweetness never obscured the tightly-crafted framework, the silvery line...
DIED. Jan Garber, 82, bandleader known for his mellow dance music; in Shreveport, La. Garber, who formed his first band at the age of 21, blended saxophones, played with what musicians call a "nanny goat vibrato," guitar and muted brass into "sweet with a beat," a smooth style that was...
Nonetheless, the 24-year-old composer produced the best opera seria ever written. Indeed Idomeneo contains some of Mozart's greatest music, much of it achieved with effects that were novel then -and are striking today. In the awesome Act II storm scene, Mozart played with orchestral color like...
For 15 years or more, nightly network television news has been of a predictable muchness-earnest, responsible, muted. Behind the scenes, huge sums are involved in ratings rivalries, in promotional buildups of anchormen, in bouncing live pickups off satellites, in devising ever more elaborate news stage-sets-but what appear...
It is possible that the trouble lies more with us than with the picture. Maybe we have been so brainwashed to expect nothing but implausibilities during the dog days that it is hard to respond to a film that takes itself as soberly as this one does. Or maybe we...