Word: score
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WAGNER: DIE WALKÜRE, (Deutsche Grammophon; 5 LPs). Despite all of its flames, blood, magic swords and flying goddesses, this crystal-and-velvet score is the most human of Wagner's Ring operas. Conductor Herbert von Karajan's slow, deliberate pace illuminates each stroke of genius in the score, but some listeners will find that he has sacrificed passion for clarity and restrained the anguish that Wagner's wild climaxes can evoke. No matter: Jon Vickers' Siegmund is powerful and Régine Crespin's hotoyohos are properly rousing...
VERDI: UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (RCA Victor: 3 LPs). Masked Ball's libretto is strictly crackplot, but Verdi's tunes justify the onstage bewilderment. The opera has an ominous history: the day Verdi brought his score to Naples, assassins tried to murder Napoleon III. Frightened Bourbon censors forced the composer to switch the locale of his rather gloomy tale (about the assassination of Sweden's 18th century King Gustav III) to exotic Massachusetts and to dramatize instead the assassination of the "Governor of Boston." Conducted appropriately by Boston's Erich Leinsdorf, this version stars the lush...
...DRIFTER. Inventive, impressionistic camera work and a memorable score tell a story as thin and fragile as a seashell about a vagabond hitchhiker...
...midst of the week's melees, a score of Negro leaders representing every stripe, from the moderation of Roy Wilkins to the militance of Floyd McKissick, met outside New York City. Their agreed aim was to head off further racial eruptions this summer, and after the meeting Wilkins issued a "red alert" to the N.A.A.C.P.'s 1,500 chapters. "Don't just be against riots," Wilkins urged, "be active in preventing them." He announced that bumper stickers would be issued with slogans such as BRICKS THROUGH WINDOWS DON'T OPEN DOORS...
...wrote the scenario, gains his greatest effects with celebrations of the ordinary: the special glint of Manhattan sidewalks at night, the raucous antics of a flock of gulls, a barefoot walk on the beach, a wave of wind through scruffy dune grass. Implementing the images is a witty, memorable score by Ken Lauber which ties together the film's disparate insights...