Word: slavic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senelick's general conception of course has weaknesses. It helplessly exposes poorly written roles, like that of Simeonov-Pischik, a rather pointless proverb-spouting neighbor played by Reggie Stuart, and Chekhov's occasional lapses of imagination. They can no longer hide behind the Slavic fog. But at the same time, the director's shaping of his Cherry Orchard makes the play funny, exciting, and intriguing as well as traditionally poignant. The play took just under three hours and you couldn't notice it, which even in the Moscow Art Theatre would be quite something...
SUCH mastery of material allows the conductor a great deal of flexibility, and Mickiewicz capitalized fully on the chance. His conducting was demonstrative, fluid, and expressive, moving in phrases instead of measures. His lines were lovingly shaped, sometimes elegantly, sometimes extravagantly. Mickiewicz is a master of that peculiarly Slavic kind of rubato whose sentiment hovers between joy and sorrow and has a gradual rocket accelerando that makes the Rossini crescendo dull by comparison...
...conversation with the violins of Heifetz, Israel Baker and Joseph de Pasquale and Jacob Lateiner's piano. In fact, all five musicians have a meticulous sympathy for Dvorak's buoyant chamber work, which is permeated by Czech folk music, or dumka ("little thought"), the unpretentious but satisfying Slavic themes that delighted Dvorak. The Françaix String Trio, on the other side, has little to offer but excellent musicians giving their best to Françaix's 1933 neoclassical piece...
...largest departments are putting a conservative construction on pass-fail. History has not yet decided, but both the Government and English Departments will not allow any pass-fail courses to count for concentration. Fine Arts, Folklore and Mythology, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Slavic have made the same decision...
Coolidge, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg in 1892, not only sought out collections of Slavic, German, Latin American, and Asian works, but also paid for some of them out of his own pocket...