Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Contrast to Pusey...
...contrast, Herb Adams's Bolingbroke is a character of much power and just though not vengeful anger. His portrayal of the usurper is not the only possible one, but Adams has developed it with assurance and consistency. Equally consistent and even more convincing is Harold R. Scott's portrayal of the Duke of York. His acting is the best in the entire production, and he makes the agony of York's divided loyalty to both Richard and Bolingbroke clear in every line and even the dejected shuffle of his steps. Scott proves that a comparatively minor part can assume major...
...contrast between Fernandel and everything else in The Red Inn makes one uncertain whether it is a comedy or a morality play. The sobriety sometimes seems to call for a conscious moral judgment, but the frivolity of its characters does not merit one. In spite of this ambiguity, there is enough of Fernandel at his best to reward the patient viewer...
Third composition on the program was Peter Mennin's Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, which made fewer demands on the listener, and showed less originality and toughness. It provided a neoromantic contrast to Sessions, and for long stretches sounded as if it might have been titled "Mr. Brahms Goes to Juilliard." Composer Mennin, who has six performed symphonies to his credit, kept the orchestra mostly under wraps to make his concerto one long melodious song for Leonard Rose's fluent cello...
...complete contrast to this light-hearted parody was Hindemith's thorny Mathis der Maler, presented over the weekend in English by the B.U. Opera School. The costumes, lights, and staging were equal to and often above professional standards. The opera deals with Mathias Grunwald, the great 16th century painter and the place of the artist, or indeed of any man, in the world...