Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WALTER GIESEKING: BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO NO. 5 IN E FLAT (Seraphim). This is the second low-priced issue of a Gieseking Emperor; the first (on Odyssey) is older and not as up-to-date in sound. For a seasoned campaigner, the late German pianist could be surprisingly youthful when he turned to Beethoven. Here he treats the Emperor more like a prince-in-waiting than an absolute monarch; he never stoops to imperious rhetoric, his tone is lithe and silvery, and he moves with quickness and grace. It is not the only way to treat the music...
...ruckus raised by Tommie Smith and John Carlos was that it dulled the lustre of a superlative track and field meet in which the U.S. once again demonstrated that it is the world's best. The Star-Spangled Banner was played so often that it began to sound like The Stars and Stripes Forever...
...monologues are only passingly humorous. But, seemingly coming from the very mouths of his characters, they take on a kind of ear-twitching incongruity that can make every utterance hilarious. On Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, Frye convulsed the audience by dubbing mixed-up voices onto the sound track of various film clips: one moment, Lyndon Johnson was on the screen speaking in the gravelly voice of Nelson Rockefeller; the next, Humphrey was speechifying in the rumbling tones of Everett Dirksen...
...second half of When the Living Gets Better features a sound track which is positively creative, and need not apologize for being only quasi-synchronized. Songs blip for an ugly instant as Sally primps. Two songs run on top of each other in distinct gibberish as she smiles at her date. The soundtrack is used by Waletzky to tell us what the pictures alone only suggest. Near the end, sound pops into sync with the click of a light-switch, grabbing our attention for the brief, affirmative finale...
...more interesting than their super-sound system or their super orgies, was the kind of communal consciousness that developed at La Honda. Everyone knew what everyone else was thinking, or thought they did. Everything, by Kesey's command was brought "out front." If you were angry with someone, desired someone, hated someone, you said so directly. Soon everyone seemed to be thinking the same things at the same time...