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TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Shadow Over Elveron, specially made for TV, is a drama of small-town corruption and its devastating effect on the lives of the town's inhabitants. With James Franciscus, Shirley Knight, Leslie Nielsen and Don Ameche...
Flying Sparks. Like his music, Nielsen's temperament blended traditional peasant qualities with a progressive sophistication and disenchantment. Born on the bucolic island of Fyn, he made his first "instrument" from various lengths of cordwood, which he banged with a hammer; later he learned violin and trumpet from his father, a house-painter-laborer who played at village dances. He was barely 14 when he left home with a military band to start his career. For most of his life he had to play in orchestras, conduct or teach to support himself: when the Royal Orchestra premiered his Symphony...
...basis of Nielsen's tensile construction, though, is the struggle between various keys within the same piece, a device that he carried to its logical limit while composers from Wagner to Schoenberg were melting down traditional notions of specific keys. The first movement of his Symphony No. 6 achieves a tragic effect by trying vainly to return to the idyllic G major from which it starts; it succeeds only in reaching the neighboring keys above and below...
Struggling Keys. Nielsen's relative isolation during his working years in Denmark helps to explain his early obscurity. But at the same time, that remoteness enhanced his originality. Such composers as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, who were working in the late romantic tradition, projected their explosive forms out of subjective, often agonized emotion. Nielsen's free-flowing counterpoint and virile rhythms sprang partly from Danish folk roots, partly from a robust, wholesome objectivity. "What business have other people with my innermost feelings?" he asked...