Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Violent, Silent World. For Bazelon, handicapping is more than just a lucrative hobby. "The track," he explains, "is an extension of the pulse and rhythmic beat of the city, and these are the roots of my music." Indeed, the rumble of hooves has been known to inspire him to a dash off a few themes while hanging on the rail. In his Dramatic Movement for Orchestra, for instance, the slam-bang finale is his version of the horses thundering down the stretch at Aqueduct...
...play in Short Symphony, a 14-minute piece subtitled "Testimony to a Big City." It bristles with jazzy splashes, but too often falls off the pace like a mudder on a fast track. It is restless, aggressive, often directionless music, a personal statement of what Bazelon calls his "violent, silent world inside." Just how he arrived at his present state of agitation is a case study of the tribulations faced by most young composers nowadays...
Then Bazelon met a psychiatrist who not only "revealed to me my true personality," but steered him to an ear doctor who restored his hearing with an operation. Suddenly, he recalls, "the violent, silent world inside me erupted. I came out of my shell." And how. Exclaims Bazelon: "I became outgoing, warm, animated, tremendously buoyant -a rock 'em, sock 'em personality. And my music became just as dramatic as I am." exit Irwin; enter...
Callaghan sat down to a silent House of Commons, which had expected harsh measures, but instead found them merely bewildering. Commented the London Times: "There was even an air of disappointment, as though the Commons were flagellants who had just had their whips confiscated by a benevolent abbot." Next day the critics were heard from. Businessmen predicted that the payroll tax would drive up the cost of living. Union leaders predicted that the bonus to manufacturers would increase the already serious problem of labor hoarding. The influential Economist simply dubbed the budget "fatheaded...
Judex adds a subtle, sophisticated and endearing chapter to the swollen literature of cinematic pop art. In homage to French Movie Pioneer Louis Feuillade, Director Georges Franju tenderly resurrects Judex, a formidable mass hero whose dime-novel adventures burgeoned on the silent screens of France between 1916 and 1918, decades before Superman got off the ground as a force for good. Happily, Franju never yields to the temptation of playing a soggy old classic for easy laughs as a smart-alecky spoof. Instead he celebrates it with sound, as a nostalgic song of innocence, an ode to an era when...