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...presented Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and shown that he can do very well at the altar by himself. The production -attractively staged, dramatically paced-has delighted everybody: audiences, critics and-through Davis' simultaneously released Philips recording-listeners on both sides of the Atlantic. Davis suits tempo to text and voice to orchestral volume in a way that captivatingly illuminates the twin ingredients that make Mozart's music the miracle that it is -the hushed fury at its core, the tripping joy at its surface...
...occasional dips into ho-hum solemnity. Playwright George Herman's academician alter-ego elbows aside the comic dramatist, forcing a meaning which the humorist could carry less intrusively. Herman's over-seriousness trips us the cast as well. The two straight scenes suffer from awkward blocking and sags in tempo while the comic sections skip around similar problems. What's worse, the dialogue smothers itself under a dead weight of philosophizing. Fortunately, Herman's didactic compulsion interfere only infrequently, and the comedy is allowed to bounce ahead...
Hanover, N.H., Dec. 8--"We controlled the whole tempo of the game. We held our poise when they came back in the second half, but then we just took it to them again...
...traveled a long way during the sixties. After Port Huron, it went through a left-liberal stage ("Part of the way with LBJ") and quickened its ideological tempo as the American smugness evaporated in Southeast Asia and in the ghettos. By the 1969 convention, the organization was riddled with factions which split over such issues as whether blacks were a colony of the American Empire or a super-exploited part of the working class...
...Munro has been worrying about the artificial surface for other reasons. The ball moves faster and bounces higher off the carpet and the tempo of most matches is strikingly increased...