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Is there a post about Edith Head? If there isn't, there should be. It is a given, if you watch a film from a certain era, this woman designed the costumes for it. And she was good at it. -
What I find incredible about this is that at 1:27, there is a very slight, almost imperceptible, mistake that nobody has probably even noticed before; yet, Spock gives a very slight, almost imperceptible, wince. Coincidence? I hate to piss on the party, but this music is not what Spock is playing. (But this is - it's by Ivan Ditmars.)
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Vladimir Horowitz claimed the opposite problem occurred with "Stars and Stripes Forever" - this whole 1977 interview with Mike Wallace (and Horowitz's wife, Wanda Toscanini Horowitz) is worth watching, especially for context, but if you want to get straight to the quote, skip to 9:30. Here is a recording of Horowitz playing it live - he wrote the piano transcription to celebrate becoming an American citizen (he immigrated from the Soviet Union), and played it at the "I Am An American Day" all-star concert in Central Park - it was broadcast over the radio to over 2 million people. It's a pretty breakneck performance, but I'm sure it was something to behold. I have the score to this (I bought it just to see how it was possible for one person to play it), and it is unplayably difficult for all but a select few, needless to say. The way Horowitz imitated the piccolos - at one time, he was the only person in the world who would dare even attempt it, and was even accused of falsifying the recording with multiple pianos - he hadn't even written the music down. As concert encores go, this is about as good as it gets, especially taken in context of World War II.
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Immature? Check. Melodramatic? Check. Coarse? Check. But I remember reading Richard Cory as a college freshman, and loving it. By the time you're my age, it is what it is. Like an overplayed piece - the first movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," or Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" - you hear the beginning, and roll your eyes, thinking to yourself, "˜no, not again.' However, despite being overplayed, both the Beethoven and Mozart are legitimate master works that have their place alongside the greatest piano pieces ever written. It isn't *their* fault they've been overplayed, nor is it their fault they've taken simple concepts and made them into something profound. I hope some of you, who aren't familiar with Richard Cory, will have that same, slack-jawed reaction that I did, long ago, in Mr. Moyle's English 102 class, when I was just a young lad of 18, trying not to let people see that I was fighting back tears. Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, "Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked. And he was rich "“ yes, richer than a king "“ And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.
