Word: intermezzo
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...impeccable, simple and restrained. "Brahms learned this too. See how luxuriant, how extravagant he writes here"-pointing to a page black with notes from the Quartet, written when Brahms was 28-"and how, later on, the single, simple notes can sing alone"-a pass at the misty, half-muttering Intermezzo in E Flat Minor of 31 years later. "My concert programs are full of familiar pieces, comfortable like old shoes, but there, too, I try each time to make them a little better...
...Anna, a brief intermezzo, Sophia plays a rich bitch who tries to persuade her bohemian lover that she doesn't care a fig for her husband's filthy lucre and all the disgusting bourgeois things it can buy. Like, say, the Rolls-Royce they are riding in. "Here, take the wheel," she announces grandly. "I don't care. I love you." Maybe so. But by a strange coincidence the affair ends up on the rocks when the car ends up in a ditch...
...quality of the performance fluctuated curiously. At times, in the "Lullaby," for instance, the piano overpowered the flute. Yet in the roaring "Intermezzo," Miss Chamberlain, much as she may have tried, could not be sufficiently brutal...
Theater 62 (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Second in a series of live dramas adapted from bygone screenplays. This one is Intermezzo, with Ingrid Thulin, Jean Pierre Aumont and Teresa Wright...
...orchestra by different members of the ensemble and "edited" by Foss. The music was rather faceless-tricked out with a full Modern Composer's Kit of dissonances, rhythmic angularities, splashy climaxes. Against this background, Foss and the ensemble worked out their improvisations. It was in the Intermezzo, when the orchestra was silent, that Foss's technique of "controlled chance" came into fullest play. The Foss ensemble was free to improvise -and it did, with some highly interesting results. The instruments traded themes, stitched their own sinewy figurations, advanced and retreated from the solo role...