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...Zeppelin's four members were born to the ashes of World War II, restless or disaffected in school, stirred to life in the 1950s by Elvis Presley and the early rock 'n' rollers. Bass Guitarist John Paul Jones, 24, is the son of a big-band pianist from the swing era. Plant, 22, son of a civil engineer, spent most of his formative years scouring blues-record shops. Drummer John Bonham, 22, son of a carpenter, got his first set of drums at age seven. Page, the eldest at 25, is the son of an industrial personnel...
...plays, the camera pans from the piano to some violins lying on a table to old framed photographs of the family (Robert, his violinist brother, his tortured pianist sister, and his fiery eyed father) to somber portraits of 19th-century composers to Katherine's face. Her eyes seem about to tear. The piece is over. She does not move. She has been reached, and there is nothing she can say. It is a moment of passionate life-made all the more passionate by the aura of death that characterizes everything else in the film. But even so, the moment...
...child seen the phrases which she wrote, in her physician's office, and had merely brought them back to mind. This may explain the Rosemary Brown phenomenon. Although her publicists have implied that she has no musical training, she has, in fact been a mediocre pianist for many years, and is familiar with the styles of many composers. The works on this record could easily have been faked by anyone with some slight musical experience...
...pieces Mrs. Brown has produced are pleasant enough. On this record, half of them are played by her, and half by pianist Peter Katin, Mrs. Brown's playing is definitely not inspired, in any sense of the word. Pedestrian is a more apt description. The pieces Katin plays are somewhat boring: a "Beethoven" Bayatelle which is just that, a piece of little interest revolving around an absurdly simple little figure; a pensive, delicate, yet only mildly competent "Schubert" Moment Musicale; a "Chopin" Impromptu in F Minor which is rather heavy and plodding; and so on through Lizst, Debussy, and Brahms...
...another example: At the end of the film, Nicholson is again faced with a crisis: he is now alienated from both his bequeathed identity (gifted pianist) and his assumed one (oil rigger cum sumbitch). The moment is poignant enough, but the response of theprotagonist of Five Easy Pieces is only a depressingly immature reassertion of character consistency-he blows town. When what is desperately needed is a fresh way to look at something, we are given something to look at. Apocalyptic world-views are fashionable, and it's a respectable ambition to depict what it is that drives...