Word: archibalds
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...Raisin in the Sun. There is no sun in this Chicago Negro tenement, but the characters who live there light up Lorraine Hansberry's first play with love, humor and dreams of escape. J.B. Tailored by Archibald MacLeish, Job in grey flannels cuts an impressive theatrical figure, even if he does lack the fierce language and logic of his Biblical ancestor...
...Archibald MacLeish's Job, though grey-flanneled and smartly modern, has real, old-fashioned theatrical excitement...
...remaining items on the program were three works for solo piano, played by Bruce Archibald. Schoenberg's Six Short Piano Pieces, Opus 19 (1911), come from a period when the composed was tired of post-Romanticism but had not yet concretized his twelve-tone technique. After close acquaintance, they still impressed me as no more than undergraduate improvisation despite Archibald's careful rendition...
...Serenade en la (1925) is not Stravinsky at his best. It has a number of very haunting places; but there are some dull stretches that the proper self-criticism would have eliminated or rewritten. Archibald gave its four movements a clear and clean performance, with very little pedal...
...Archibald took several sections considerably faster than Copland himself used to, and in the process introduced quite a few wrong notes. But his over-all concept of the work's structure and impetus yielded a more unified result than when the composer played it. This is achievement enough for a young pianist...