Word: blende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since faith in our age must be entertaining, it wears in Godspell all the trappings of musical farce, with the comic acting-out of Christian parables alternating with a lively rock and gospel-inspired score. The resultant blend is hardly the ultimate in sophistication--in this version of the Christian myth, the plot is stylized and the characterizations, save for Jesus, nearly non-existent...
...part of their attempt to blend into Soviet society as much as possible, the Schecters sent their children to an ordinary Soviet school. For their first few weeks there, the children relied on the Russian they had learned in an intensive course that the entire family had taken before arriving in Moscow. "The only problem at first was that we stood out as foreigners because we arrived at school every morning in our Volvo station wagon, which was one of maybe two in all of Moscow. Everyone would stare at us--it was very embarrassing. But after a while...
Houston Opera General Director David Gockley, 32, commissioned Bilby's Doll as his company's bow to the Bicentennial celebration. He has presented it well. Ming Cho Lee's skeletal sets have just the right blend of reality and make-believe. As Doll, Catherine Malfitano, 27, acts intelligently and sings with a clear lyric soprano; she is obviously going places. The rest of the cast is almost as good, notably Mezzo Joy Davidson (Hannah), Bass Thomas Paul (Bilby) and Tenor Jack Trussel (Shad...
...geared to the opera's sublime disregard for stagecraft. The sets, also by Ming Cho Lee, are elegant suggestions of an isolated royal redoubt. By contrast, Peter J. Hall's costumes are as palpable as the clothes people wear in Flemish domestic paintings. The two elements blend in Sandro Sequi's direction, which amounts to little more than staging subtly shifting tableaux...
...when both cello and audience are out of sight and the world-famous cellist sheds the veneer of the grande artiste, Rostropovich projects an idiosyncratic blend of energy and joie de vivre. As evidence one need only glimpse at the man after the master class, hulking like a Russian bear in his furry coat, dignified, prematurely gray and balding, with a protruding lower jaw, pulled along by his prize possession and constant companion, "Pooks." Pooks, the effete miniature dog who accompanies Rostropovich everywhere he goes, was insisting that they be fashionably early to the post-class reception...