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...Human Voice (Caedmon; $5.95), with Ingrid Bergman, is a brilliant one-woman tour de force written by Jean Cocteau and originally released in 1960. The woman is alone, talking to her lover on the phone. He is about to marry someone else and she is desolate. Intimate, anguished, yearning, tender, this is a portrait of a woman desperately trying to breathe life into a dead love. As one critic put it, "Had the piece been played in the barren Sahara, the dunes would have moved closer to listen...
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and Other Tales (Boris Karloff; Caedmon). Actor Karloff, in a voice as rich as a ripe persimmon, unwinds with "infinite resource and sagacity" the mad Kiplingesque logic featuring the rhinoceros with a three-button skin and the Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected "in more than Oriental splendor...
Carl Sandburg's Poems for Children (Caedmon). Poet Sandburg, in his keening, wonder-struck voice, reads a selection of the short poems that have fueled his public recitations for years. The quieter ones-Buffalo Dusk, Young Sea, Early Moon-are fused with a sense of mystery that any receptive child can feel...
...Montessori teacher, she began with a small nursery group in her Manhattan apartment. Moving to Connecticut a few years later, she found fellow Catholic neighbors eager to try Montessori teaching, and in 1958 opened Whitby School in a renovated stable, naming it after the ancient Yorkshire abbey where Caedmon, the poet-stableboy, sang his verses...
...part with a brilliant blend of boisterousness and truculence. Since then, he has been a wild Teddy Boy in The Lily White Boys, a suitably complex Oedipus in a BBC production of Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine, and a robust and lyric Romeo in a Caedmon recording of Romeo and Juliet (with Claire Bloom), scheduled for U.S. release soon. But throughout Britain he is best known as Arthur Seaton, hero of the film version of Novelist Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, an elaborately praised production that will give the U.S. its first full look...