Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does Hamlet not quite come to life until the Prince is ready to die? Part of the reason lies in Director Stephen Aaron's approach to the play. In searching for a way to present Hamlet to a modern audience, Aaron was led back to the customs of the Elizabethan stage. Eschewing most modern "conveniences," he uses no incidental music apart from that indicated in Shakespeare's text, has no trick lighting, and permits just one intermission. Even the set, which was designed by John Ratte, suggests the Globe Playhouse, since it consists of little more than two platforms connected...
Hamlet, to be sure, is a hard play despite its greatness--hard both for the actors and the audience. Stephen Aaron, in presenting a production which, by modern standards at least, is stripped down to its very essentials has placed a large burden on both the cast and the audience. Was he right to do so? The last sections of the play largely justify his approach. As for the rest, his application of theory there shows up as an act of courage which is itself deserves no mean amount of praise...
...Aaron Copland deplored the existence of so much "ancestor worship" among modern music-lovers. He said that the public's desire for "certified" masterpieces in music is a sign of cultural immaturity and a phenomenon not found in other arts, like the legitimate theatre. "Those who want only masterworks," he stated, "wouldn't know the best music if they heard...
...Theatre Workshop, program four, finds Hal Scott, who could never pass as a freshman amateur, trying very little experimental, but doing it very well, in a judiciously edited Emperor Jones and the some-what staggering The Purification. Prefatory remarks, concerning some H.D.C. production next week, by Stephen Aaron '57, Esq. Others. At 3:10 and 8:15 p.m. today in Agassiz...
...Composer Aaron Copland, Otto Luening, professor of Music at Columbia, and Irving Fine, professor of Music at Brandeis will discuss "The Contemporary Composer and His Public" at the Law School Forum tonight at 8 p.m. in New Lecture Hall...