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...arts in one hall." He was standing in the lobby of Manhattan's off-Broadway Phoenix Theater, surrounded by an intermission crowd of beards, ponytails and beatminks. The occasion: an evening of modern dance presented by the most consistently daring experimenter in the field-Dancer-Choreographer Merce Cunningham...
Since he left the Martha Graham company 14 years ago, Merce Cunningham has pursued a labyrinthine path extravagantly admired by his followers but often bewilderingly obscure to uninitiated spectators. In Cunningham's world, disembodied arms may project from behind curtains to serve as coat racks, the dancers may suddenly suspend all motion to stand fiercely washing their hands, the hero, dressed in a multi-colored coat, may roll about grunting like a pig or baying like a hound...
With only each other to treat savagely, they still do a consummate job. In the title story, fat, foolish Rita Cunningham marries her dead husband's stepbrother, a slim, sardonic man with a tomcat's morals and the face of a ''boy film-star." The end is total humiliation for Rita. Women, generally, have a bad time. Our Bovary tells of Sonia Smith, who looks like a dahlia, "large, top-heavy, gorgeous," and who gets satisfaction neither from her small husband nor her stiflingly small home town. South African Author Gordimer, 35, who is a tiny...
...drowsy armchair purists," Beecham offers a thunderously 19th century-styled orchestration-lush, richly colored, and full of dramatic contrasts. Soloists and chorus are uniformly fine, but the recording is not for listeners who take their Handel neat. Eugene Ormandy offers a severely cut reading (Eileen Farrell, Martha Lipton, Davis Cunningham, William Warfield; the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Columbia, 2 LPs, mono and stereo). The performance indulges in fewer pyrotechnics, is chiefly memorable for the truly superb singing of Soprano Farrell...
...gentile school instead of following his tracks into the business. But his wife is determined, and Carnovsky's only strength seems to be his wit; this is sad since his wit is less honed than that of his wife, whose part is a bit overplayed by Sarah Cunningham. Carnovsky's magnificent outbursts take on meaning from his more frequent displays of quiet resignation before wife's and fate's hand: "Did I say no?" he asks, seeking reconciliation. "The only thing was I didn't say yes loud enough...." This is a tremendously funny play. But the humor is warm...