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...features a recording of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Ronald Brautigam at the piano and Peter Masseurs supplying the trumpet solo work. The piece resembles Shostakovich's other concertos for violin and cello in that conventional devices of the Germanic school are used for delirious swells and placid falls, with the addition of unexpected minor chord modulations that open up new possibilities for the instrument. Those who see Shostakovich as a throwback to the Romantics should not underestimate the importance of his original variations on timetested themes...
...money mad. Just three months after Woodstock, in November 1969, he published the first issue of Interview, his monthly that would lump together '40s screen goddesses, lustrous Europeans of vaguely aristocratic background and the very latest shoe designers. By virtue of the fact that Warhol had turned his placid gaze their way, the imprimatur of hip was attached to them...
...drydock). Her lover is Fabian Vas, the narrator, who could easily have been the subject of a stultifying art novel. From age 8 he has spent most of his time in inlets and marshes sketching birds, turning his impressions into meticulous paintings that he sells to magazines. A placid life on the surface, but then Fabian has Margaret, plus his own vacillation, to keep him off balance...
...still reign and xenophobic feeling towards Americans is rampant. Taylor Nichols plays Ted Boynton, an American working for an international motor company who is content to stay at home and dance while reading his Bible. (By the way, this was the most interesting scene of the entire film). His placid life is interrupted when his cousin Fred (Chris Eigeman) arrives, purportedly the lead man for his naval ship which is supposed to arrive in Barcelona soon. Fred likes to party and make up lewd jokes about Ted's nonexistent sex-life. But this all sounds more interesting than the film...
...which was one of the five teams to defeatHarvard this year, was stifled by Harvard'sdefense and Israel's 21 saves at Lake Placid in a3-0 Crimson victory, Harvard's first ECACtournament championship since...