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Overlooked by the Lincoln Memorial, the festival holds forth as a patchwork of Americana to show the nation's ethnic roots from abroad and their perpetuation in American history. The Smithsonian's scholars reject with a shudder the "melting pot" concept of America. They believe in an ethnically diverse, pluralistic nation to which scores of cultures have supplied the pieces that make up the American mosaic...
Volpone. If all this Americana is beginning to stick in your throat, get away from it all and go see this classic satire by Shakespeare's old drinking buddy Ben Jonson Jonson lets his venom loose on greed a timeless subject that's usually good for a chortie or two. There's a character named Sir Politic Wouldbe. Presented by the Public Theater outdoors under the stars by the Charles at 1175 Soldiers Field Road in Auston. Tomorrow and Saturday at 8:30, tickets a reasonable one book...
...both its audience ("These are the people who elect the President," a political advance man comments early in the film, with just a trace of disdain) and its tradition. Country-and-western basically dresses up folk music in rhinestones and spangles, making hay out of Americana. A lot of it is slick and sweet, and its sanctimony can curdle the blood. Altman used the music like a continuing, slap-happy dirge...
...three decades separating the Allied victory in Europe from the American debacle in South Viet Nam were already being viewed by some as a self-contained chapter of history, the rise and fall of the Western world's reliance upon the Pax Americana. One sign of the times was French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's announcement that France's 30th celebration of V-E day would be its last. Rather than sustain the memories of past animosities-and past alliances -Europeans should "open the way to the future and turn our thoughts to that which...
...Reynolds, 40, is creating such a work at the University of California at San Diego. A baseball cantata based on Casey at the Bat? Pulitizer Prizewinner William Schuman, 64, is warming that one up. There has been comparatively little pressure on composers to wave the flag or concentrate on Americana, though Leonard Bernstein is setting to music poems by eight favorite writers, including Whitman and Poe. Dominick Argento and Vivian Fine are writing chamber operas respectively on Chekhov's monologue On the Harmfulness of Tobacco and Famous Women (Gertrude Stein, Isadora Duncan, Virginia Woolf). For a touch of Shakespeare...