Word: bacchus
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...Spring, a primeval world, complete with dinosaurs, bubbles up, parades by, dies down. To Mussorgsky's spooky Night on Bald Mountain, hobgoblins and beldams ride their brooms. To Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, centaurs and centaurettes, Pegasus, Mrs. Pegasus and a nestful of little Pegasi gambol and fly; Bacchus and his crew get a good drenching when the storm comes up. The whole cinesymphony concert lasts two hours and a half (intermission included...
...would have taken a Gustave Doré to do justice to the big beauty of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. No Dore, Disney peoples his classical Olympus with smirking "centaurettes," smirkingly brassiered, with calf-eyed centaurs and kewpie-doll cupids, makes Bacchus' bacchanale look like a nursery lemonade party, leaves his audience wondering whether he is serious, or merely trying to be cute by putting diapers on Olympus...
...there until in 1624 he scraped up enough money to go to Rome. He lived and painted in Rome till he died 41 years later. Well represented in the Durlacher show are his airy, romantic landscapes, his carefully voluptuous canvases of classic myths (Venus and Adonis, The Triumph of Bacchus), his poised, devout religious paintings...
...Bacchus Ballet is possibly the most successful scene in the show. Perhaps unconsciously, Pi Eta has become almost aesthetic here, and plus the highly successful comedy this fantasy makes for an exceptionally good scene...
...director of the show is Paul Anderson who has been leading these soirces for ten consecutive years. Anderson believes that the feature of the show will be a ballet set around a spiffed Bacchus who wanders in a formal garden encircled by marble statues. As he becomes increasingly pickled, the figures dance, and when he assumes unconsciousnss they regain their pedestals...