Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aesthetic attitudinizing, and its plot is powered by the usual sort of Gilbertian paradox--in this case, an identification of love with duty which brands the love of anything worth loving as undutiful. But it lacks the consistently memorable score that distinguishes Pirates of Penzance, for example, or the brilliant comic sequences which make Iolanthea favorite...
Pristine Chants. Lily is a brilliant flop. A professor at Harvard and a 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner, Kirchner concedes the opera's transparent comment on American intervention abroad. In fact, he once considered (and wisely reconsidered) calling it Why We Were in Viet Nam. What he has produced, however, is a 91-minute, one-act work in which Henderson simply fails to come alive as an operatic hero. Possibly he is too rambling, too widely split a character to be captured in the broad terms that opera thrives on. Certainly Kirchner, who conducted the première, has come...
...then gave the crowd a few more ulcers, winning a pair of tie-breakers to edge Columbia's Joe Perez, 7-6, 6-3, 7-6. Down 5-4 in the third set and returning serve, Shay hit hot streak and broke Perez's service with a series of brilliant shots. "I've never hit so many good shots in one game in my life," Shaw said after the match. But he still had a few good ones in store, and he pulled them out to snag the tiebreaker...
...Harold Ernst Gallery at 161 Newbury is an absolute must, especially now until May 7 with its show of watercolors by Frederick Lynch. Lynch paints wonderful, witty caricatures of portly men and buxom women dressed in atrocious color combinations. The most remarkable aspect of the works is their brilliant, vibrant colors, a far cry from the misty, delicate landscapes so popular among watercolor artists...
...Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple has produced a brilliant documentary about the people of the coalfields. The USA in the title is significant--to citizens of the Northeast, these hill people are as alien as citizens of the moon. Yet Kopple, a native New Yorker, has captured them and the life they lead with touching accuracy. Perhaps her job was made easier by the fact that people who work hard and suffer long have a shy, easy grace in front of a camera. But it's a painfully easy grace--born and nourished in suffering. Kopple takes us inside their...