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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Victor Manusevitch's programming for the second concert of the Cambridge Civic Symphony Orchestra was highly imaginative, but the Orchestra's response to his direction was often disappointing, for one reason or another. In the Mozart Piano concerto (K 271, in E flat) the very excellence of the soloist, a young Frenchwoman named Eveylne Crochet, made the Orchestra's contribution seem rather weak. Mile. Crochet's reading, a compendium of elegant phrasing, effortless roulades, and delicious, unforced tone (for which the piano is probably due some credit) was the performance of a knowing, sensitive professional. But the Orchestra is only...
...generally good evening that at its best is engrossing. The play has its contrived moments and false notes, and the German-however well played by Michael Bryant-serves too many purposes to emerge entirely right. But in view of England's gulf between classes and generations and often evasive family tactics, there is more than a measure of truth in Shaffer's picture. And with John Gielgud eloquently directing a good cast in which the father and son are outstanding, there is a definite abundance of theater...
...most contemporary sculpture. But Frink's ostensible purpose has nothing to do with moral messages or with ideals of any kind, not even plastic ones. "Somebody makes a metal armature for me," she explains, "and I start covering it with quick-drying plaster. I work very fast, often trying to combine the form of a bird with the form of a man. I'm absorbed in forms. When I do a bird, it's not a bird to me, but the form of a bird. Not that there is any right form exactly; it comes different every...
...terror of free-spending bureaucrats and servicemen; from injuries suffered in a traffic accident; in Grand Rapids, Mich. Dogged, chunky Al Engel was forever going off on solitary investigations, once (1943) covered 48 war plants in 44 days by driving day and night, found that plant profits were often exorbitant. In his lifelong pursuit of facts, he uncovered some strange ones, e.g., a striptease show produced at intervals by the Baltimore Social Security Board. Occasionally he blundered: he urged a reporter to expose a crackpot big-spending scheme called the Manhattan Project six months before the atom bomb was dropped...
...Story. Half soap opera and half documentary, often absorbing, about a G-man (Jimmy Stewart), his job, his wife and kids...