Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Almost 30 years ago, Ford was an officer aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier in the mid-Pacific when Hirohito ordered Japan's surrender. A military band played the two countries' national anthems, then, in a touch of unintentional irony, serenaded Ford with the University of Michigan fight song, The Victors. Hirohito took Ford to the moated Imperial Palace to meet Empress Nagako and exchange gifts: from the royal couple, a 2½%-ft. Kutani porcelain plate; from Ford, a Steuben crystal work engraved with pine and fir trees...
Exploitation is at the core of this show. The idea was to cash in on the popularity of the Beatles. Their songs are probably as original and innocently evocative of the flower-child world of the '60s as they ever were, but here they are trampled under the dreck of Tom O'Horgan's grimagination. Just to offer one example, his notion of enhancing a song like When I'm Sixty-Four is to have two doddering floor-to-ceiling puppets paw lewdly at each other. As for plot, he tells a fragmentary tale...
...regard for machines doesn't seem too startling or incisive--it's a bit like that statement about the diminished purity of spirit, maybe, with its yearning for bygone times and its inability to say why convincingly. It leads into a brief look at a sad and very serious song about what happens when love disappears. But Renoir hasn't shown us where love comes from yet--that only happens, some, in the third section. For all the grace and style of The Little Theater, it might be better off if Renoir had insisted more on what he says...
...intellect, should have totally ignored the fact that Private Lives is a romantic comedy and not a knockabout farce to be milked for cheap, rowdy laughs. However they may strike us 44 years after the play was written, Amanda and Elyot were meant to be romantic names. The one song in the play, Some Day I'll Find You, is as seductive as a dizzying perfume. This production exudes merely a sorry stench. ·T.E.K...
...arrangement," explains Boutry, "taken the drums out, changed the rhythm and the harmony, altered a few notes." While the 1792 version was a stirring march, the revised edition is more like a hymn. After a private audition recently, Giscard pronounced it great. Les citoyens are reserving judgment until the song's official debut this week...