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Thomas Jungling Sorenson is superb as Mendel, playing him as an impish yet innocent scamp. Mendel knows perfectly well what lines he is not supposed to cross, yet time after time he turns big puppy eyes on his mother or father and asks some outrageous question that causes an eruption. Yet despite his mischievous intentions, Mendel asks his questions out of a sincere desire to ferret out the mystery surrounding...
...passages for the quartet alone were interesting and well executed--for example, the introduction of the quartet through staggered entrances, often with some degree of imitation. Both the quality of the writing and the superb performance of the Mendelssohn String Quartet contributed to the excellent rendering of the polyphony. The upper-register work of the 'cello in the first movement and the brief 'cello solo of the second movement were both particularly remarkable. This solo leads into an extended passage for the quartet alone, a cadenza of sorts, featuring some of the most demanding parts of the work. The arrival...
Hoffman is superb, underplaying even the punchiest lines for maximum effect. A spotlight line such as, "You're the best show in town, Sam," might have amounted to little more than a melodramatic leer in the hands of a less talented actor; Hoffman delivers it quietly, almost swallowing the words, and the effect is chilling. To its own detriment, the script fails to learn from his example. Writers Tom Matthews and Eric Williams, journalists themselves, cannot resist hammering home their message. "I don't want to cross the line," Brackett tells his boss; Lou, at the beginning of the movie...
Meier, 63, has come up with a superb piece of place making. When the Epcot-style tram delivers you from the parking garage at the bottom to the plaza at the top of the ridge, you step out into a space that seems both amiable and Utopian, dignified but, despite its acreage of travertine, not authoritarian: a respite from the visual chaos of Los Angeles, but offering the best views a public could have of the city spread below...
...answer is not the relatively conservative program, but rather Kissel's superb performance. Except for the occasional click of her mallets, the performance was nearly flawless. Kissel reminds us of what we value in virtuosity: not the complexity of the music, but the effortlessness with which that music is executed...