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...Beggar...
...next four years, Williams collected the job labels that are pasted on the luggage of itinerant U.S. writers. He worked as a restaurant cashier, usher in Manhattan's Strand Theater, Teletype operator, apartment-house elevator operator, and as a poetry-reciting waiter in Greenwich Village's Beggar Bar-where he wore a black eye patch with a libidinous white eye painted on it; he had undergone the first of four eye operations. Moving on to Hollywood, he wrote unused film scripts for MGM, until he was fired. One of the scripts was titled The Gentleman Caller, which became...
...Committee also granted formal assent to the Lowell House Opera Society's rendition of Gay's Beggar's Opera, with David Cole '63 directing...
...sameness of it all. Any melody had a hard time expressing a specific feeling of its own; rather it would drift into a nostalgic sitting-round-the-fire sort of mood which could be poignant but little else. This sentimental cliche seemed to deaden the vivacious choruses from The Beggar's Opera, and seemed to some degree to underlay almost all the folksongs. Davison's arrangement did avoid it by its striking chords and elaborate voicing, and Fukunata's Barcarolle of Koshiki Isle escaped it through a swift melodic dive repeated throughout...
Simple choral arrangements led to triteness: in Sanchez Malaya's Pues Bien Yo Necesito, a movingly bitter solo jarred badly with a sleepy, hummed background. The same happened in The Beggar's Opera songs when several jaunty soloists livened up the bland arrangement of an essentially impersonal chorus. Hearing a full chorus all evening robs music of its feeling because the tone colors and textures are so limited. Too many, groups sound like the imaginative Wiffenpoofs. Glee clubs must use smaller ensembles if they are to be more expressive...