Word: boatwright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...precise ensemble and balance, and spiritual sympathy. But conductor James Yannatos deserves special praise for a manly, unostentatious, dramatically well-proportioned, moving yet suitably chaste reading of this Requiem of consolation for both dead and living. Baritone Thomas Beveridge sang with subtler phrasing and dynamic control than soprano Helen Boatwright, who, while possessing considerably more substantial tone, tended to substitute distracting inhalatory anguish for simpler feeling. The sorrow of her central text resides in the unadorned line, without need for such overt emotional infringement...
...central character is Carter Jones, splendidly sung by Negro Baritone McHenry Boatwright. Schuller sees Jones as "the type of Negro whose personal and racial characteristics have become undefined because of attempts over the years to adapt himself to the dominating social order. He simply wants to lead a decent life in an indecent society. " Onstage, that society is represented by a gang of white toughs, in an unnamed U.S. city, who accuse Jones of an undisclosed misdeed, subject him to a "trial" in a cotton warehouse and beat him mercilessly. He seeks help from the Legal Aid Society, friends...
...interlude, the foreboding of violence is achieved by the integration of threatening crowd noises broadcast through loudspeakers in the rear of the auditorium, sustained, jaggedly dissonant chords from the orchestra, and frantic improvisations from the jazz combo. At the curtain, the Hamburg audience exploded in a great ovation, called Boatwright back again and again for bows...
MUSTANGS AND COW HORSES, edited by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatwright and Harry H. Ransom. Authentic writing about the prairie of the 1840s when huge herds of swift, hardy mustangs had the run of the great plains. Then, in one brutal decade, they were tamed or killed in the frontiersmen's surge to the Rockies...
MUSTANGS AND COW HORSES, edited by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatwright and Harry H. Ransom. Authentic writing about the prairie of the 1840s when huge herds of swift, hardy mustangs had the run of the great plains. Then, in one brutal decade, they were tamed or killed in the frontiersmen's relentless surge to the Rockies...