Word: arons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orgy? In Boston? Er-, ah-, well now, everyone muttered, that would take a little doing. But doing is Sarah Caldwell's speciality, and last week she led her Opera Company of Boston in the U.S. premiere of Schoenberg's epic Moses and Aron. For raw power, fireworks and daring, it was a spectacle that made Bunker Hill look like the Tea Party...
...daring to schedule the opera in the first place. Big, sprawling and complex, Moses and Aron demands a range of musical and technical expertise that few opera companies could or would attempt. For one thing, the libretto calls for "an orgy of sexual excess," in which herds of animals are slaughtered and naked men and women run riot. Composer Schoenberg himself ruefully concluded that it was probably "undoable...
Frozen Blood. Sarah Caldwell began to think so too when, after she scheduled the opera for May, the tenor she had lined up to play Aron backed out. She put it back on the program again six weeks ago, and this time the baritone withdrew. Through it all, the 160-voice chorus kept practicing away, running up production costs that ultimately skyrocketed to $300,000, thus making it one of the most expensive operas ever produced. Finally, Tenor Richard Lewis and Baritone Donald Gramm stepped into the roles of the Biblical brothers, and the promised land was reached...
Contributors have always ranked among France's most eminent men of letters; today they range from Political Analyst Raymond Aron to Moviemaker Rene Clair to Biologist Jean Rostand to Play wright Jean Anouilh...
...RaymoM Aron, D. Let., French author and university professor. You carry on and exemplify the venerable French tradition of the intellectual man of action...