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...background music, the producers rented a tape from Samuel French of the Peter Link score for the original production (although it is not credited in the program), and what was modest and tuneful from a handful of peasant-outfitted musicians on Broadway here sounds like corny, department-store Muzak. The costumes, surprisingly, are the most professional element of the show; clearly, a lot of money has been spent on them. Some, like The Seducer's white tails, cane, and hat, are noticeably dazzling; others are trim and colorful, with a surprising amount of attention paid to detail...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: In Need of Surgery | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Padre, Padrone. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's entrancing film about the loam-to-letters life of a bestselling Sardinian author from humble peasant origins provides the most convincing evidence since Bertolucci's "Last Tango in Paris" of the resilient vitality in Italian cinema, the recent excesses of Fellini, Antonioni, et al notwithstanding. The Taviani brothers' first film to receive international attention, it features a host of mind-gripping sequences destined to set apart "Padre, Padrone" as one of the most important films to cross the Atlantic in the late 1970s. To name only two: the unforgettable series of shots capturing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: With A Trowel | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

Gamba and harpsichord works of Bach and Handel. At Peasant Stock Restaurant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: March 9 - March 15 | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

Bach, Mozart and Beethover--Works for two clarinets and bassoon. At Peasant Stock Restaurant. Call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: March 9 - March 15 | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

Music of Beethoven, Brahms and Prokofiev--Shannon Shapp, cello, and Sarah Steinhardt, piano. At Peasant Stock Restaurant. Call 354-9528 for info...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: March 9 - March 15 | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

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