Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from a folk music into an art music," said Gunther Schuller, explaining the kind of atonal, far-out compositions that he, John Lewis, Harold Farberman and Bill Smith have written for this album. The results are cooler and more cerebral than those of Eric Dolphy, the late wild-blowing, note-bending alto saxophonist. But Bill Smith (on clarinet) and the other instrumentalists are first-rate, and the music, though it seldom swings, consistently sizzles...
...door is left open, of course, because the voice belongs to Michael Caine, and every word he speaks these days is received as attentively as a ransom note. In the year and a half since his role as the bemused, workaday spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File shot him to sudden international splendor, Caine, 33, has appeared in four films, of which three-Funeral in Berlin, Alfie and Gambit-are among the nation's top box-office draws. A fifth picture, Hurry Sundown, with Jane Fonda, opened last week in Los Angeles. Now in Finland filming another Harry...
Stan Brakhage, 37, a husky hypochondriac who lives with his wife and five children in a log cabin in Colorado, has radically rewritten movie grammar. By fragmenting his films into frames, Brakhage has established the frame in cinema as equivalent to the note in music; whereupon he proceeds to make films with frames the way a composer makes music with notes. His Art of Vision, an attempt to do for cinema what Bach did for music with his Art of the Fugue, is an ambitious example of what Brakhage calls retinal music. One problem: to watch the violently flickering flick...
...most faithful companion is the skeleton of a woman, the least troublesome kind of female from his point of view. In every town he knows the jails, the madhouses, the cantinas and the churches. He wears rags sewn with tiny bells, each of which tinkles a note that in his mind symbolizes the special vice of each place he has visited. He is a spiv, and his roguish capacity for survival unites him with Ulysses, Tom Jones and Huckleberry Finn. Yet Pito remains the faithful son of both Catholicism and the anticlerical tenets of the Mexican Revolution. At his most...
Dudley, Fitts says in his introduction that his first note on Tate's manuscript was "a robust amused declarative style." This is a reasonable first impression. Tate has created graceful balances with the potentially disastrous load of fact his senses yield him; and he has done it largely by virtue of his metaphorical muscle. His rhythms and his syntax tend to confirm the analogies he suggests, Thus, in "Pastoral Scene...