Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Death of a Salesman gets a distinguished treatment by director Steve Aaron and a cast headed by Dean Gitter, Pat Hess, and Colgate Salisbury. Sanders...
Understanding, coupled with entirely effective production, is the foundation of the play's success. And although the distribution of praise is a difficult matter in this case, first honors must go to director Steve Aaron for his searching interpretation of the play, and for the manner in which he has brought the speech and action of all his principle characters to bear on the revelation and comprehension of Willy Loman's final, tragic assertion...
...probing and drawing out of these characters, top-level production aids Aaron's direction. Donald Bourne's semi-abstract setting facilitates the intrusions into Willy's mind, and with the addition of Jordan Jelke's complex and intelligent lighting, makes the many swift transitions of mood and locale neat and effective. Caldwell Titcomb's striking musical score powerfully augments these effects, and is always appropriate. Happily, considering the intricacy of the production, there is a professional polish in meeting cues which characterizes the entire play...
Future names on the festival program furnish a virtual Who's Who in American Music, including Composers Walter Piston and Roy Harris, Aaron Copland, Paul Creston, Wallingford Riegger, Henry Cowell, Norman Dello Joio...
Last week Conductor James Robertson led the Wichita Symphony in its third concert of the season. The program ranged from the almost-modern Sibelius Concerto in D Minor (with 28-year-old Violinist Aaron Rosand) to Rimsky-Korsakov's well-worn Scheherazade-which miffed a few of Wichita's growing number of musical sophisticates, but wowed the big audiences. The performances sounded as rich and bold as a big-city orchestra...