Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eliahu Inbal, conductor; Philips; $7.98). The music of Tchaikovsky can hardly be said to have suffered over the years from underexposure. Yet here are four tone poems that most Tchaikovsky buffs will not know. The Storm is windy stuff at best and deserves its obscurity. But Fatum (Fate) and The Voyevode have an orchestral touch and programmatic flair that approach the popular 1812 Overture and Capriccio Italien. And The Tempest, written four years after Romeo and Juliet, is one of the composer's grandest scores. Conductor Inbal, an Israeli now in his second year as head of the Frankfurt...
...over his head in situations he doesn't fully understand." Though a certain dimness makes him a less obviously comic figure than he is in the book, it also makes him a more believable one. And it permits Kubrick to demonstrate, without shattering the movie's tone, Barry's two nearly saving graces-physical gallantry and desperate love of his only child, whose death is the film's emotional high point and the tragedy that finally undoes Barry...
...shocked and dismayed at the blatantly commercial tone of your holiday supplement. The focus on expensive gifts, expensive ski vacations, and expensive resorts was not only vulgar but also out of keeping with your usually astute social perspectives. I was quite disappointed to see the bylines of some of your better writers attached to such "sell-out" articles...
...unfortunate that director Leah Rosovsky didn't modify the tone of Mendler's performance, because the cast of supporting characters is perfectly competent. Tony Gittelson, as Allan's friend Dick Christie, captures the essence of the New York corporate man attached to his telephone as if it were an umbilical cord. His wife Linda (Lisa Wolfson) is presented with just the right blend of hard ambition and self-doubt. But the core is missing; without a sufficiently interesting Allan to play off of, these peripheral characters remain self-contained and unable to compensate for the show's central failure...
...tone of his letters 18 years later, although he is preoccupied with the European diplomatic scene now instead of smallpox, often display the same emotion. He writes to his mate from Amsterdam, where he is trying to persuade the Netherlands to aid the newly created American nation...