Word: tempoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sica), who was forced to become a Nazi spy but eventually gave his life for his country, the Rossellini effort was an almost unanimous critical success. "Comeback!" cried the critics, and talked of the old Rossellini of Paisan and Open City. "Finally a good film," beamed Rome's Tempo. "With this picture all hopes are rekindled. The old, glorious banner of the first Rossellinian neorealism flies again...
Handel:Concerti Gross! Opus 6(1 Mu-sici Ensemble; Epic). A mixture of exuberant passages, serene fugues and multivoiced instrumental harmonies, Handel's Concerti Nos. 4, 9 and 10 get the electric tempo they deserve from a brilliant ensemble that was launched in Rome...
...Pianist Brubeck (TIME cover, Nov. 8, 1954) and his mates (Eugene Wright on bass, Joe Morello on drums, Paul Desmond on alto sax) made each number sound like a theme and variations. The quartet usually started with well-known tunes (These Foolish Things, St. Louis Blues), then varied the tempo (from 4/4 to 5/4 and back to 3/4) as it injected its own sometimes loud, sometimes soft designs. The solo lead flew like a badminton bird from one musician to the other...
...sharp, clear vibes, a versatile piano, a bass and a set of traps, the quartet warmed up with a cool version of I'll Remember April, approached mastery in its last offering, a three-part number (The Singer, Harlequin, Contessa) delivered in a boogie-woogie, bass-led tempo and highlighted by an atonal, polyphonic piano...
...seductive: "We'll go away together . . . Come away love, come away." The voice is big and bold: "Hey, you fool you! Why so cool you!" The voice is sad and soft behind real tears as the lights go down: "Only yesterday, when the world was young . . ." Whatever the tempo, Tin-Pan or torchy, the songs of Felicia Sanders throb with a strange, sinewy vitality in the basement's air-cooled dark. The mikes and the speakers and the slow-changing spotlights are superfluous. When Felicia sings, the silence beyond the stage is the silence of rapt attention...