Word: burred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Headaches. At 64, Composer Orff is more confirmed than ever in the direction he took in 1936, when he completed Carmina Bur ana, his first major work, and ordered all his previous manuscripts destroyed. Orff totally rejects the idea of "pure music," never writes for the concert hall. He places such importance on the texts of his "dramatic cantatas" that he will permit none of them to be translated, although he himself seems intrigued by foreign idioms. When working on Oedipus, he decided to write the musical directions in Italian, the stage directions in Latin, e.g., the entrance...
...cross that stubborn thumb of East Germany that separates Berlin from the West; one third arrives by rail, a third by truck, a third by barge. But governing Mayor Willy Brandt, a World War II resistance hero who looks as if he could fill the shoes of the late Bur germeister Ernst Reuter of blockade-days' fame, let it be known that his government has stashed away six months' supplies of fuel, food and medicine, valued at $180 million. If it came to a showdown, there were always the three air lanes from the West along which...
...least ten of which will probably see an opening night on Broadway. The list ranges from the operatic Ballad of Baby Doe (TIME, July 16) to a musical adaptation of Voltaire's Candide by Lillian (The Little Foxes) Hellman, Conductor-Composer Leonard Bernstein and Poet Richard Wil bur. There are also such suggestions of enchanting evenings as Ethel Merman in Happy Hunting, with a book by Life With Father's Howard Lindsay-Russel Grouse; Li'l Abner, based on Al Capp's comic strip, with songs by Johnny Mercer; Pay the Piper by George (Damn Yankees...
...Most insulting of all, the Russians and Chinese began selling off their Burmese rice in Burma's own best markets. Said U Nu bitterly last month: "Anybody who goes into a barter deal when he could have a cash deal is crazy." The experience has not diminished Bur ma's determination - as a small country with a thousand-mile Chinese border - to stick to official neutralism, but Burma is now becoming neutral against the Com munists. Already Premier Ba Swe's gov ernment has reversed Burma's decision of three years ago to refuse all economic...
Completed in 1936, Carmina Bur ana is Carl Orff's first major work (he destroyed all his previous manuscripts), the piece he calls his "snowplow" because it clears a path with listeners for acceptance of his others, e.g., musical plays based on Grimm fairy tales, poems by Catullus, Greek tragedy. He called it a "dramatic cantata," and meant it to be performed as a theater piece. At 59, still living near his native Munich, Orff no longer writes for the concert hall. Says he: "Melody and speech belong together. I reject the idea of a pure music...