Word: brink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beulah Goren did Giovanni's wife, Luisa, somewhat nuttier than necessary, it seemed to me; one should be able to identify strongly with Luisa as a woman whose horror at the senselessness of her son's death has driven her near the brink of insanity--Miss Goren seemed to have tottered over long ago, however, and was therefore merely grotesque. John Kennedy's Tomaso needs to come alive, Carroll Britch's Nicola to die down...
...medium: the trio for piano, violin, and 'cello (played, respectively, on this occasion by Bruce Simonds. Robert Brink, and Karl Zeise). The two works: Beethoven's Trio in B-Flat Major ("Archduke"), Op. 97, and Brahms' Trio in B Major, Op. 8--though Brahms' two later contributions to the medium press them hard...
...Zeise drew from his 'cello a tone that was beautiful indeed and unusually even throughout the whole range. Mr. Brink proved himself to be an obviously fine musician, but not quite in the same class with his two companions; he had occasional insecurity of intonation...
...taken by young boys. Miss McKenna is able to convey a zestful boyishness without ever losing her innate womanliness. And more than any one else in the cast, she pays attention to the poetic qualities of the text (though on opening night she sometimes lowered her voice to the brink of inaudibility...
July 13: The Hamden Trio (Bruce Simonds, Robert Brink and Karl Ziese). Trios by Loeillet, Beethoven and Brahms...