Word: broodingness
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Topical Relevance. In a dual salute to his own work and the reopening of an enlarged, acoustically sharpened Royal Festival Hall, Tippett last week conducted the London Philharmonic in a performance of his most celebrated oratorio, the 23-year-old A Child of Our Times. The libretto, based on the...
Languid Afternoons. With a canny eye on the box office, Mann has attracted a devoted following from "the lay and fringe public" with a unique amalgam of jazz and ethnic music. Last week, in Manhattan's cavernous Village Gate, the Herbie Mann Septet was serving up one of its...
The spirit of Edgar Allan Poe hovers over these playlets, not only in brooding menace, but in the sealed and airless abodes where characters are filled with the breath of death. The actors seem perfectly attuned to this death's dream kingdom, most notably Frances Sternhagen, who is scrupulously...
Few artists who have painted Kennedy subject matter in the past year have accomplished anything more than timeliness. Social realism hardly makes the convincing picture that it did in the 1930s. But through Osborn's 27 chalk, collage and charcoal drawings in Manhattan's Downtown Gallery runs a...
Germany has been brooding about her mines for years. Once the power source of the nation's industry and still a politically potent force, coal has watched its share of the country's fuel market plunge from 92% in 1950 to 49.8% today. Rising production and labor costs...