Word: tormenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHOSTAKOVICH PIANO QUINTET (L'Oiseau-Lyre). There is not much modern Russian chamber music to be heard, but probably its finest example and a credit to any age is this quintet, written in 1940 shortly after the Sixth Symphony and like it a resolution of the torment expressed in the Fifth. Its many lightly inflected moods flow peacefully together with classical clarity, interrupted in the middle by a short, funny honky-tonk of a Scherzo. The Melos Ensemble of London plays it with quiet understanding; it presents as well a sparkling, icy Prokofiev Quintet dated Paris...
...Jews and Christians alike, the significance of God's covenant with the Jews is one of history's great theological mysteries. Why did the Creator entrust his revelation to an obscure tribe of ancient Palestine? Why have the chosen people become a nation of exile, torment and holocaust? Just published in the U.S. is one of the century's most profound and moving attempts to unravel the meaning of Judaism: This People Israel, by the late Rabbi Leo Baeck (Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...Russian actor who now appears to be all surface, a musty relic of the past, embalmed in the stylized rituals of ballet and the overstatements of vaudeville. By contrast, the American actor performs his abiding task, which is the intense psychological probing of every nuance of inner torment...
...Poland is just too too off-Broadway. At any rate, the program is saturated with all the fashionably despairing notions that stir tempests in the espresso cups of Greenwich Village coffeehouses. The angst comes in all flavors and includes Everyman's thwarted desire to communicate with Everyman, the torment of the creative artist, the solitary anguish of existence, and the torturing sense of living in the shadow of the Apocalypse...
Eating out in France has become a financial torment as well as an Epicurean pleasure. Restaurants tack on extra charges for everything from napkins to green vegetables, and les additions have risen higher than souffles. Disturbed by the 9% rise in restaurant prices in the last year compared with a hike in overall living costs of 2.5%, Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing has decided to broaden France's 14-month-old price-stabilization program to cover menus. Last week hard-eyed government inspectors set out all over France to make certain that the nation...