Word: cantatas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aplenty will be offered this week in Cambridge and Boston. Banchette Musicale begins its season on Friday with a performance of baroque and classical music on original instruments. The orchestra will perform Telemann's Ouverture for Oboes, Horns, Bassoon and Strings, concerti by Stamitz and Tartini, and Bach's Cantata 170. Show up at 8:30 in Paine Hall, Music Building. Tickets are $2.50 at the door or by calling...
Swados finds the simplest statement of her theme in two works of Nazim Hikmet. "Things I Didn't Know I Loved" opens Cantata, celebrating an adult re-awakening to the fundamental miracle of life bursting with questions for animals and astronauts alike. "On Living" ends the show with a return to general statements on existence: "Living must be your whole occupation... Plant olives at seventy and not for your children... We must live as if one never dies...
Swados also has not overcome the problem of integrating into a whole the varied subjects and formats of the adopted pieces. Blackouts are used too frequently for transition between numbers instead of more refined staging and lighting. At times the structure disappears, turning Nightclub Cantata into Up With People gone disco...
WOMEN ARE the center of these three pieces and women are the strength of Nightclub Cantata. This is not women's theatre, however, and the less impressive men fill half the cast and almost half the script. The fault lies mainly with the script, for the male parts are mostly restricted to humorous numbers which belittle but do not develop character. The men fade into the background, unable to fit the roles of strength and love the women desire for them...
...style that causes Swados so much difficulty also saves her. The weak points fade into the blackouts, while the mood keeps building with each successive piece. The music--calypso, raga, and jazz tunes especially--dull the overly critical senses with their inebriating optimism. You have to smile after Nightclub Cantata. You have a stringer full of speckled trout on a sunny day. Who cares about the big one that got away...