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Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken may be the sort of static introspective play that is actually better read than seen. If faultlessly performed it might make robust drama, but the current production by the Theatre Company of Boston is not faultless...
When We Dead Awaken is the last thing Ibsen wrote, a "dramatic epilogue" dated 1899. An aging sculptor, Professor Arnold Rubek, begins to question the cult of creativity to which he has consecrated his life. Simultaneously he regrets his commitment to art and his declining powers as an artist. The creative urge still gnaws at him, but he cannot recover the idealistic dedication he had as a young...
...orchestral musicians, my colleagues and I have long suffered under overpaid, mediocre leaders who have charmed the ladies of the symphony associations in the tea-and-crumpet circuit. I can only hope that Piatigorsky's book [Feb. 5] will help awaken the public...
Thanksgiving was created by naive men for an ingenuous age, when the saga of the Pilgrims could still awaken a poignant inspiration in the nation's soul. In 1863, the year the holiday was first observed by proclamation of President Lincoln, the Plymouth adventure still symbolized the courage and idealism of a young America. The country responded to the charming religious faith of William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth, who wrote...
Clad in brown, gold, red and white tights, the dancers moved across a starkly lit stage that was virtually bare of scenery. In the first movement they awaken timidly from fetal positions, groping skittishly through the anguish of birth and early life. The playfully exuberant dancing in the scherzo abruptly shifts to an anti-racist theme in the third movement, in which racially mixed couples court and embrace, reject and reconcile. In the triumphant final movement, the entire troupe joyously marches and swirls about the stage while the chorus sings "Alle Menschen werden Brüder [All men become brothers...