Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support of kindly and patient friends. The right historical moment to present his work. And, finally, a sympathetic, critical champion, gently guiding an audience to proper appreciation of the artist's gifts. Simple things, yes. But how hard they are to come by, what luck is required in the quest, and how rarely artists themselves confront their difficulties in an engaging spirit. The whine of self-pity, the bombast of self-aggrandizement, the low moan of tragedy are the notes most often heard from the creator on the subject of his life...
...last aspect of his career is made most obvious by the long series of lectures, master classes and informal "teaching concerts" with which Kipnis has attempted to make both the harpsichord and its repertoire more accessible to skeptical audiences. He has already visited dozens of American universities in his quest to bring classical music to a young audience or, as he puts it, to "bring the mountain to Mohammed." This week finds him here at his alma mater for a series of student-oriented musical events, as part of the Office for the Arts' Learning from Performers program...
Shamie said more time was needed to study the bill. If that time wasn't granted, the Republicans threatened to run radio ads before the November election claiming, "The Legislature rammed the bill through so Mike Dukakis would have something to crow about in his quest for the White House...
...director, Robert Frank, has said that he intended this film to be a "road movie," and in that he has certainly succeeded. The plot of Candy Mountain unrolls something like The Wizard of Oz on high-octane fuel. It all hinges on a frankly ludicrous rock-'n'-roll quest...
First of all, is the disappearance of an acoustic guitar maker really the best premise for a rock-'n'-roll quest film? Buster Poindexter's band, which gets to play for about 15 seconds, uses an electric guitarist anyway, and you can hardly hear him under all the brass. In addition, Julius himself, who gets a chance at one point to croon a bit of a folk song, proves himself an impossibly bad musician, so a "big break" hardly seems in order for him even if he could find Elmore Silk...