Word: oratorio
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Firemen's Ball and Oratorio for Prague--Two first rate, if lightweight, Czech films which run amuck. In Milos (Loves of a Blonde) Forman's comedy, the dramatic action edges toward the consequential and finally becomes downright grisly, with no let-up in the constant low-key joking. In Jan Nemec's documentary, reality gets out of hand as the appearance of Russian tanks drastically alter what had been intended as a cheerful film about the liberalized Dubcek regime. At the EXETER, Exeter St. between Commonwealth & Newbury...
Firemen's Ball and Oratorio for Prague--Two first rate, if lightweight, Czech films which run amuck. In Milos (Loves of a Blonde) Forman's comedy, the dramatic action edges toward the consequential and finally becomes downright grisly, with no let-up in the constant low-key joking. In Jan Nemec's documentary, reality gets out of hand as the appearance of Russian tanks drastically alter what had been intended as a cheerful film about the liberalized Dubcek regime. At the EXETER, Exeter St. between Commonwealth & Newbury...
Firemen's Ball and Oratorio for Prague--Two first rate, if lightweight, Czech films which run amuck. In Milos (Loves of a Blonde) Forman's comedy, the dramatic action edges toward the consequential and finally becomes downright grisly, with no let-up in the constant low-key joking. In Jan Nemec's documentary, reality gets out of hand as the appearance of Russian tanks drastically alter what had been intended as a cheerful film about the liberalized Dubcek regime. At the EXETER, Exeter St. between Commonwealth & Newbury...
...short, Oratorio for Prague, also deserves notice. It is a compositon which, like a fine piece of music, flows in and out while it covers its subject--the nature of the Czechoslovakian character at the approach of the August invasion. The film is narrated with the simplicity of a Hemingway story, everything cut down to the essential facts. But the effect is tremendous because the camera work is excellent and the background music is good, while the mixing of the three elements--narration, film, and music--is perfect...
Lightfoot's assured, straightforward delivery shows him to be that rarity in the folk field, a well-schooled singer. He got his early training as a high school student in the central Ontario town of Orillia. "Man, I did the whole bit -oratorio work, Kiwanis contests, operettas, barbershop quartets." He also played drums and sang in a dance band, and taught himself folk guitar. After a year of study at California's Westlake College of Music, he launched his career by working as a studio singer on Canadian and British television. "Musically, I'm the product...