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Today, with a 4-2 record the Bulldogs are a half game behind frontrunner. Dartmouth and the Harvard contest is vital to the Elis championship aspirations. There is notice for pep talks for Carmen Cozza's squad they know what they must do they have to play rough and pray enough. The prayers are for Penn who plays the Dartmouth Big Green in Philadelphia. There will be a lot of converted Quakers wearing, blue and white uniform today in the Stadium...
While contemporary political subjects are taboo in the arts, sex is an acceptable theme. The National Theater's current production of Bizet's Carmen must certainly rank as one of the most erotic of versions. In one scene of the opera, Carmen does a striptease, then lolls on a bed in her underwear, grabbing at Don José. Later the couple fall into bed and, through some miraculous exercise of lung power, manage to sing their love duet while they are passionately embracing...
...before heard at the Met. Even listeners with only high school French got a better sense of the plot. Bernstein looked at the score as though he had never conducted it before -which he had not-and came up with a broad, slow but crackingly taut performance that underlined Carmen's sense of doom. "Perhaps," says McCracken, "the sense of tragedy was even more influenced by the death of Mr. Gentele. The real tragedy influenced everyone's approach." ∎William Bender...
...More people have heard Marilyn Horne sing Carmen than are aware of it. In 1954 she dubbed the sound track for Dorothy Dandridge in the 20th Century-Fox movie adaptation of the musical Carmen Jones. Otherwise, she has been in no hurry to sing the role on America's major opera stage. Born in Bradford, Pa., raised in Los Angeles, Horne is one of a number of outstanding American singers who prefer to come to the Met only when they are ready for it-and it for them...
Mainly as a result of her stubborn faith in her own instincts, Horne at 18 flunked out of the opera workshop at the University of Southern California. To sing Carmen at that age, as the director insisted, would ruin her voice, she felt. Yet at 21, she was one of Los Angeles' more prominent singers, performing Palestrina and Brahms with the Roger Wagner Chorale and Igor Stravinsky with Igor Stravinsky...