Word: benders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William Bender...
...perhaps Mussorgsky's greatest innovation and contribution to future operatic composers. Says Conductor Schippers: "Boris influenced so many composers-Puccini, Stravinsky, Janacek, even Gian Carlo Menotti. Without it we might not have had a Pelleas et Melisande. That's how important I think Boris is." -William Bender...
...most striking elements in the show is the delicate lithography. There are two views of clumped, tangled grasses or mosses by Walter Bender. And Keith Courtway's abstract arrangement of almost imperceptible floating lines amid exploding flurries of black line unsettles you with its elusive resemblance to something organic. A squatting woman printed in black ink on white by Ruth Hayes provides the focus for a tiny yet solid composition...
...artist like me chooses not to play, then he must be locked up somewhere in a mental home. I am not crazy; otherwise I could not have learned the Scriabin Fifth this summer." He need not have bothered defending himself, but he does have a point there. ∙ William Bender...
Opera, says Mr. Scruples in Mozart's The Impresario, "occasionally loses skirmishes, but it invariably wins the battle for survival." On the theory that some of the most interesting battles are taking place in that realm known as regional opera, TIME'S music critic William Bender visited St. Paul, Katonah, N. Y., and Ottawa. He encountered imaginative programming, talented young singers, skilled managerial talent and audiences as eager for the untried as the familiar. His report...