Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's leading sexpert and birth controller, Dr. Marie (Married Love) Stopes, 73, had the tight little isle atwitter over a recently published tome titled Sleep. In their present-day sleeping practices, declares twice-married Dr. Stopes, mother of two, Britons are going from bed to worse. One of...
¶ Leon Kirchner's Piano Concerto, the week's toughest nut, which the composer played with the Philharmonic Symphony, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos. It was romantic in its delicate, lyrical episodes, its sudden, violent climaxes, and the virtuosic intent of its solo part. It contained, as does all...
Most of the cast is as good as the other aspects of the production. Rosalind Froug, the stock broker, has an overwhelming stage presence and a pleasant singing voice. As the poet, Frederic Morehouse is at least adequate, though at times he is a little too jocular for an exalted...
His enraged departure is a sign. Perhaps movie makers are becoming too obsessed with modernizing their monsters. Or perhaps they are not going far enough, and should throw aside all the hackneyed romantic trappings (wire-filled laboratories, flowing black gowns, and evil sayings) to create a really new monster.
One of Brahms's last compositions, the Clarinet Quintet Op. 115, closed the program. This is one of the most melodic and well-constructed pieces of romantic chamber music. The assisting clarinetist, James Wood, was superb. His tone was sweet though not syrupy throughout the clarinet's large range from...