Word: brustein
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Once bitten by that bug, you're bitten for life," Brustein says...
...child, no one would have predicted that Professor of English Robert S. Brustein would become one of the most eminent figures in the theater world...
Anyone who has enjoyed a play at the American Repertory Theatre (ART) has benefited from the efforts of Brustein...
Helen E. Shaw '98, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, says Brustein has developed the academic side of theater...
...orchestra pulls off the true to their style Klezmer songs and wildly outrageous parodies of Yiddish familiars with grace and ease. Particularly spectacular is Composer Mlotek's "Geography Song," a parody of a 1947 folk song by Aaron Lebedeff. Here Mlotek and musical adapter Hankus Wetsky are successful where Brustein fails; they masterfully adapt the familiar melodies and lyrical stories which are so much a part of Yiddish culture into vibrant and enjoyable pieces which augment and respectfully recognize their source. The music of "Shlemiel the First" is as thoughtful as it is hilarious; it is fun, but not hollow...