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...himself still prefers his 1945 Piano Concerto in F). It has humor and a touch of drama, and a striking contrast of light & dark textures (major & minor) unifies the whole piece. Its weakness is formal: the main line of progress is too full of pleasant but unrelated detours into puckish humor and free-flown fancy...
Williams has spent the fall alone, kidding the backfields along. This is not to imply that the puckish little man is always a joker. He can be as sarcastic as he is jolly, should the occasion require. He is a tough taskmaster, and any deviations from the perfection he demands bring a biting, albeit witty, comment. Even at its sharpest, the Williams crack has a decidedly humorous aspect...
That will be Serafin's main job. He is also eager to take a hand in some of City Opera's new productions. He is scheduled to conduct Ravel's puckish L'Heure Espagnole last week...
Gieseking, a German who plays the French impressionists better than most Frenchmen, devotes four sides to all 24 of the Preludes of Debussy (Girl with the Flaxen Hair, Sunken Cathedral, General La-vine-eccentric, etc.). Their delicate, pastel coloration, slippery sonorities, puckish humor and technical perfection make these four sides the best of the lot. When Gieseking comes to the otherworldly slow movement of Mozart's Concerto in A Major (K. 488), he sounds rather heartless; his Beethoven G-Major Concerto is appropriately intimate, but could do with more drive and more clarity of detail...
...Come Fill the Cup" is a puckish title for a puckish film. Originally taken from a novel by Harlan Ware, the movie develops into a show dedicated to the proposition that a drunk's world is a delightful place. It is a life that shifts from gutter to mansion in a matter of seconds, and it involves all sorts of fascinating people. And, it has a cops-and-robbers ending...