Word: zithers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plaintive zither of The Third Man gives way to a sorrowful silence in The Human Factor. The development of Castle's motivation is a little thin; his fleeting interest in religious faith seems like a crack in the sidewalk that Greene is compelled to step on. Despite the title, compassion is not the novel's strong point. It is rather the author's bitterness and sense of inevitability about "the intelligent and the corrupt," the Mullers who talk calmly about final solutions and the agents who plan the murder of a colleague between mouthfuls of smoked trout...
...wide-eyed innocence through more than 50 years of changing features, and to Roger Robinson, whose five parts include both the piano player from Casablanca and Viola, the archetype of all comic maids. As Viola he is transcendentally ridiculous, bustling ever back ward and sounding alarmingly like a zither that is about to lose its strings...
...music comes last in this review and it shouldn't, for this concert is a collaboration of two soloists. David Moss's collection of instruments is highly visual as well as audible, some hung from a metal frame: drums, gongs, warped cymbals, pot covers, a Chinese zither. Further downstage stand three sonic sculptures: clusters of metal rods placed on hollow blocks which sound otherworldly when stroked or bowed. And Moss makes vocal sounds too: I thought he was just clearing his throat and settling into his funhouse of instruments before I realized the concert had begun. Paxton joins Moss...
...Third Man. Orson Welles stars in this adaptation of Graham Greene's "entertainment." Vienna afficionados will recognize the Cafe Mozart; beer drinkers will note the zither theme song later used for Waldech commercials...