Word: petrushka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sayer: Endless Flight (Warner Bros.). For years, Sayer's own sweet soaring tenor (reminiscent of Elton John's) was obscured as he comported himself onstage in thick white makeup and a clown suit. Now Sayer has shucked his Petrushka image. Instead he diverts his energy into making rock music of a high order. A gifted songwriter, he has come up with an album of infectious melodies in a sophisticated rhythm-and-blues vein. In addition to the breakaway single You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, he has a winner in the ballad When I Need...
...film, however, Bertolucci's visual style sparkles sufficiently to overshadow the shallowness of the film as a whole. A few shots of books stacked in mounds in Jacob I's room are satisfying in terms of the parallel they make with the Roman ruins outside. The landlord Petrushka (Sergio Tofano) who wants to be treated like a servant, is a fascinating minor character. These are the sort of minor elements with which Bertolucci built his better films, but in Partner they come to no avail...
Yannatos showed further short-sightedness when he rotated the instrumentalists within his wind section--an extraordinary policy which resulted in a superb flute performance in Stravinsky's Petrushka and then abysmal, brittle, out-of-tune music from the flutes and oboes in the Dvorak. The sloppy wind performance in the cello concerto obscured a strong effort by the strings to match at least partially the virtuosity of Starker...
BEFORE THE INTERMISSION, HRO took on Stravinsky's Petrushka, an enjoyable yet demanding piece. This was the highlight of the orchestra's performance: the brass section and several soloists, especially flutist Marilyn Chohaney, excelled. The placement of the piece before the break was unfortunate because the already restless audience was not anxious to sit through the long Petrushka. Sanders was already stifling by that time...
SANDERS THEATER. Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Stravinsky: Petrushka; and Janos Starker, cello soloist, in concerti by Dvorak and Vivaldi. Tickets: $4-3-2-1 at Holyoke Center Ticket Office. Friday, November...