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Experiment in Terror (1962)

Directed by Blake Edwards, this moody and surreal Columbia noir couldn’t have been more different than his previous film. Made just after Breakfast at Tiffany’s, starring Lee Remick, Glenn Ford, Stefanie Powers and Roy Poole, and a hauntingly cool film score by Henry Mancini, this black & white psychological thriller […]

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Adagietto

In the Fourth movement, the famous Adagietto, harp and strings alone play. The opening melody recalls two of Mahler’s songs, “Nun seh’ ich wohl” (from Kindertotenlieder) and the separate Ruckert setting “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen”. The long upbeats and expressive appoggiaturas of the melodic lines give the music […]

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