Word: sacrum
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...neck. Both hands had simian creases. The left hand had four fingers (thumb and three fingers); a rudimentary sixth finger was attached to the right hand. The right foot showed a slight deformity. A roentgenogram taken after death showed eleven pair of thin ribs, absence of part of the sacrum, and dislocation of both hips...
...Neither does the movie, mostly because Ann-Margret-whose scanty wardrobe suggests that she draws her energy directly from the sun-gyrates with a stem-to-stern fury that makes Presley's pelvic r.p.m.s seem powered by a flashlight battery. Ann-Margret isn't worried about his sacrum, she is afraid he'll break his neck in the Grand Pree. But no. They enter a talent contest and tie for first prize-a prepaid honeymoon in Las Vegas. Since they are already there, the picture ends in a hurry...
...Friday as a memorial to the composer, who died a week ago yesterday. This symphony, called "Symphonie Concertante," is one of the more skillful anthologies of Stravinsky's music to appear since World War II. Its first movement presents the principal ideas of Agon, with a dash of Canticum Sacrum; its second, themes from The Rite of Spring; its third, themes from The Symphony of Psalms. After carful editing removes the boring parts where Hartmann tries some of his own tricks, the symphony should be very popular in short courses on twentieth century music literature...
...method used to be famous, has now written a piece derived almost entirely from on twelve-tone row. Everyone knew it was coming: the direction of the wind could be ascertained in 192, with the inversions and retrogrades of the Cantata; then real twelve-tone sections appeared in Canticum Sacrum and Agon: then came Threni ("Threnodies"), a long (for Stravinsky) setting of texts from the Vulgate Lamentations of Jeremiah. Nor was it hard to predict that this piece would sound like Stravinsky, and not like the Viennese, the young serialists, or anybody else. I did find one or two places...
...alfalfa-flavored chamber music. A notable and daring exception has been New York's Empire State Music Festival, which five years ago pledged itself to new or rarely performed works. In a sprawling tent at Ellenville, N.Y., the festival presented the Eastern premiere of Stravinsky's Canticum Sacrum, the premiere of a ballet by Villa-Lottos, Sibelius' music for The Tempest and Strauss's Elektra, Carl Orff's score for Midsummer Night's Dream. But the festival was dogged by bad luck and bad weather, last summer had to close up shop in midseason...