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...band was oozing into the last strains of "Love Me Tender." Out on the dance floor, Spike and Mary Lou were snuggled against the fading melodic strains of "their song." The music died and a hush fell over the crowd. The band paused. The heavy, murky atmosphere of the late-night bar was thick with anticipation...
...true that Mendelssohn could not, like Schubert, say "My music is the product of my genius and my misery." He knew no misery, neglect or disappointment, neither the gloom of Beethoven nor the melancholy of Chopin. The Reformation Symphony, for example, is religiosity at its most cloying, and Elijah, tender as its pastoral moments are, simply does not convey the full might of its subject. What Mendelssohn did know about was order, proportion, logic and joy. He was a better orchestrator than either Schumann or Brahms. In some of his juvenile operas, he experimented with leitmotifs-long before Wagner...
WEDNESDAY: Tender Is The Night. 1961 adaptation of the Fitzgerald novel with Jason Robards and Jennifer Jones. CH.56. 8 p.m. Color...
...aimlessly from the hills of Wales, to the streets of Paris, to the lakes of Switzerland, but it really goes nowhere at all. It is not that one would want powerful intellection or epic scope or even moral paulon from Truffaut. One would merely like something more substantial than tender-minded emotionalism. Truffaut is too young to be wistful and too old to whine...
...tender, graceful fable about a Ute boy who comes finally to a hard-won maturity. As a child, Tom Black Bull lived in the Colorado mountains with his parents. When they died, he went to school on the Indian reservation, lured there by the promise that he would be allowed to instruct the other children in the old ways-the rich rituals and traditions of the tribe that were Tom's only legacy from his parents. The school supervisor, however, had a different idea, expressed with smug official tolerance: "Let him learn the new ways first...