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...taking on our human nature, took on every inch of it (save sin) in all its density, and who so obviously did not march too quickly or too glibly to beauty, the infinite, the dream." Lynch adds: "I keep before my mind the remark of W. H. Auden that no one cares much who were the cousins and the sisters and the aunts of Apollo whereas we are completely interested in every detail of the life and being of Christ...
...fine performances this year, the NBC Opera Company's TV version last week stood out as a high point of the opera season. Usually, English translations of opera have the incongruous effect of a grey flannel suit at a fancy dress ball, but this time Poet W. H. Auden and Collaborator Chester Kallman managed to provide language that was not ridiculed by the music or drowned by it; the TV microphone clearly picked out the words that, in an opera house, usually fail to cross the orchestra pit. As a result, with the exception of a few close calls...
...Opera Company (2-4:30 p.m.). Mozart's masterpiece, Don Giovanni, with an English libretto by Poets W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, with Cesare Siepi, Leontyne Price, Helen George and Judith Radkin. Color...
...only an intrinsically great play but that it sets the model from which great poetic drama may hope to flow in our times." And, indeed, Ciardi contended that "MacLeish's great technical achievement is in his forging of a true poetic stage line for our times." Dismissing Eliot, Auden, Fry, and lesser ilk as failures in this respect, he pointed out that "until now, no one since Shakespeare has found a sufficient answer to the problems that arise from the combination of poetry and the stage ... Only MacLeish has found the line that teaches the American language...
...persistent bestseller among the pressed poets introduces his fourth posthumous album by biting the fans that fed him, with an assault on the "culture vultures" who lie in wait for traveling English poets. That chore out of the way, he sets to reading Walter de la Mare, W. H. Auden, Thomas Hardy in the familiar, tumult-ringing style that makes every poet who ever lived sound like Dylan Thomas...