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Johann Sebastian Bach seemed to have no understanding of his own greatness. Year after year, he turned out his glorious cantatas and Passions like a baker hurrying over the breakfast rolls. He considered the music that flowed from his pen for 50 years to be a collection of testimonials to honest craftsmanship-some of it better than others, but all of it composed, as he humbly wrote in the dedication of the Musical Offering, "as well as I possibly could...
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (RCA Victor). Were it not for the likes of Strauss, there would be no proper use for an orchestra as mighty and glorious as the Boston Symphony Orchestra can become when Conductor Erich Leinsdorf is in a heroic mood. Here, in a beautifully recorded performance, Leinsdorf, Strauss and the B.S.O. are all at their impressive best...
White Model. Nostalgic Thais recall the glorious days when Siam's elephant corps was its dreaded force de frappe.*As a member of SEATO, Thailand nowadays sets more store by its U.S.-supplied M-24 tanks. Nonetheless, allows Colonel Damnern Lekhakul, a military historian attached to the Thai general staff, "If a war comes, we may have to rely on elephants for jungle combat...
...Communist radio announcer de scribes the tag end of a May Day parade: "We can already hear the noise of stamping and shuffling," he says with enthusiasm. "Yes, here they come. Our glorious incomparable rehabilitated invalids. A spirited detachment of legless men who are swinging their crutches with gusto. Wooden legs reflect the sun. Two men who have lost an arm each get together so they can clap...
...that, Chukhrai offers noteworthy compensations. His film is brimful of humanity and humor. His actors are superb, particularly Drobysheva. Meeting her hero for the first time on a snowy street corner, she turns a blind date into a glorious little ballet of girlish uncertainty. Women at a railway station, waiting for the merest glimpse of their menfolk, watch a troop train roar through at top speed, leaving behind an acre or so of stunned faces that say all there is to say about war's anguish at home. And Chukhrai pumps irony into a sequence that has Sasha posing...