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...sentimental question deserves a sentimental answer, but was it really necessary to play both the Moonlight Sonata and Here Comes the Bride in the same movie? At 29, Bergman obviously thought so. But the film has flair as well as faults...
Richter was so exhausted for his final concert that he talked of canceling out, then appeared to play a brutal program of Hindemith's First Sonata, five Shostakovich preludes and fugues, Prokofiev's Sixth Sonata and, for encores, a bouquet of Prokofiev Visions Fugitives. Had his playing improved? Though the atmosphere that surrounded him could not help but candy the reviews, Paris could only say: "Such taste, such wonderful music, such flair...
...well. Despite his virtuoso technique. Anievas' playing lacked authority and. too often, the ability to express either the sweep of the music or its depth. But on occasion, as in Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Paganini and the singing passages of Sessions' First Sonata, he shed his tall, dark detachment and dug down to bring up the music that had been expected...
Another original work of Babe's, a four-scene opera entitled The Cursed Dauncers, will also run on the main stage next spring. The score for the opera was composed by Alfred F. Guzzetti '63 who wrote the incidental music for Babe's recent production of The Ghost Sonata...
Strindberg's "The Ghost Sonata" is at the Loeb Drama Center, at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $2. The Charles Playhouse is giving "The Threepenny Opera," tonight at 5:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., and Sunday...