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...concert ranged from Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture to the same composer's Wind Octet, Opus 103. Conductor Daniel Hathaway kept the orchestra precisely together throughout Coriolanus, but many of the opportunities for playing back and forth between parts were muffed. He might have had better luck at a faster tempo. However, the orchestra's total sound was impressively rich, exceeding what I would have expected from a comparatively small group...
...subdued murkiness that kills most of the excitement of Lithgow's wonderfully staged crowd scenes. The music is strange, not, I suspect, completely because it was composed that way. The pace of many big scenes (all of those in the inn, for example) is nowhere near the feverish tempo that should drive Woyzeck to final destruction. And the timing of small bits is often fuzzy, so that Woyzeck's knifing of Marie, for instance, is only feebly chilling...
...heard only on 78s or reissues. Not so Benny Carter who, as a Chocolate Dandy in 1929, was one of the pioneers of the alto saxophone. Busy with Hollywood-arranging assignments, Carter seldom plays today; but this new recording finds him as fluent as ever, brightening his own up-tempo compositions (Doozy, Come on Back) with four other ebullient saxophonists at his side...
...less than a month to election time in Massachusetts, and the political tempo is accelerating. Last week, the pressure of politics had one very obvious effect: Gov. John A. Volpe abandoned his administration's long-standing, but unpopular, position favoring the Brook-line-Elm St. route for the Inner Belt through Cambridge. Volpe pledged he would "start from scratch" in selecting a path for the highway...
Little happens, except what Passer calls "life as it is, unheroic, unexceptional but nonetheless interesting." More than interesting, Lighting reflects a humanist tradition seldom seen on the screen since the early films of René Clair, Renoir and De Sica. The young city visitors quicken the tempo of existence for Bambas' family. Everyone goes off to supply music at a country funeral. Later the menfolk, including Grandpa, get together with the village pharmacist to form a string quartet in a rehearsal sequence that is disrupted by intramural arguments and arthritic aches, with additional time called by Peter...