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...University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, he supervised the premières of nearly 2,000 pieces by more than 700-odd U.S. composers. Many of these compositions were in a harshly dissonant, far-out style for which Hanson himself had little liking. Nevertheless, he insisted, "Well-knit music that sounds like hell is still competent musicianship and deserves a hearing...
...times the music offers too much development of too little substance, but it is nevertheless an impressive display of the composer's craft as well as his capacity for communication. Against this, the absence of startling innovation seems less important. After all, well-knit music that does not sound like hell deserves a hearing...
...Lerner's Ten Years After the Party deviates bravely from the rule about writing what you know, and the resulting incredibility--a product of both vagueness andinaccuracy--takes fully an act to overcome. Much in the '30's style, with a measure of Arthur Miller, Lerner has attempted a well-knit family drama tackling a coherent question: is exile a valid means of protesting repression? Lerner narrows in on this subject through the character of an 18-year-old anti-Nazi whose conviction derives largely from jealousy. The secondary theme is thus the effect of personal motives on the legitimacy...
...book, mostly the work of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, represents the flowering of a dominant style of pre-war musical comedy. An intricate, well-knit plot midway between a P.G. Wodchouse novel and a Pudding Show, though visibly pieced together in the Taft Hotel or the New Haven Railroad, is among the best of its kind--good enough to pose a favorable contrast to today's usually more stylized, loosely constructed counterparts...
Justification, however, is not tantamount to satisfaction. The notion behind Harper precludes the possibility of a well-knit mystery, and it is only at the very end that this becomes evident. Thus anyone who tries to figure the mystery out feels cheated. If you don't try you will be spared what is really the one failing of a fine movie...