Word: schmaltz
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...exactly Sholom Aleichem, but I have never enjoyed an evening in the theater so much in my life." Israel's most formidable critic, Chaim Gamzu-whose last name is now the idiom for "roast"-naturally complained that the musical "is sunk in cauldrons of schmaltz." So what else did he expect, bubbled Joe Stein, who wrote the Broadway book: "Schmaltz is not exactly a Japanese invention, you know...
...different from what it's like when you're just eating lunch there. For me, the costumed doorman, the gala black tie throng, and hot bitter demitasses during the interval were enough to make the evening. But producer Walter Jewell included an opera to boot, with lots of buffa schmaltz, all the trimmings: a bevy of beautiful girls, elegant costumes, and a glittering Mozart score with a light, frothy libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte...
...program of Beethoven, Kodaly and Dvorak, and with the outstanding assistance of Pianist Jacob Lateiner they produced an evening of chamber music that was a won der of clarity, control and immense warmth. Not many modern instrumentalists, in fact, could play a program tinged with anything so remarkably like schmaltz-and so triumphantly carry...
...after a six-year run in Prague and several tours of Europe, Laterna Magika arrived for a six-week stand in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. On opening night a full and fashionable house sat still for a 2½hour show that started with a swift skid through schmaltz (a 90-minute medley of scenes from Jacques Offenbach's romantic opera, Tales of Hoffmann) and finished with a swift skip through the silly side of the medium (a hilarious short subject in which the actors in one movie wander accidentally into another...
...grab bag of cheap tricks," grumbled the News. Poor Kostelanetz- he did the noble thing, but he did it badly. He had tried to elevate the pops concert to a level beyond simple, forgettable amusement. With the response he got, he no doubt wishes he had stuck to schmaltz. But the Philharmonic's program for the rest of the 20-concert series includes much that is seldom performed and deserves attention. The credit for good intentions, at least, belongs to Kostelanetz...