Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greater part of this furor deserves a quick exit with no curtain calls. There is, however, a question of morals which is outside of all legality and upon which the most recent champions of the Scrubwomen stand. In Pome short moment when the crusading ardor is not all-powerful, "The Harvard Square Deal Association" might be reminded that any question of morality inevitably means a moral issue, not an absolute moral truth...
...Igor Stravinsky's savage Sacre du Printemps (" Rite of Spring" ). Executors of the event were the League of Composers, prime promoters of modern music, and Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Boleslaw Stokowski who, with his Philadelphia Orchestra, is an institution unto himself. As companion piece or curtain-raiser was given Composer Arnold Schönberg's Die Glückliche Hand (" Hand of Fate...
Sacre. The curtain went up on some 40 Russian peasants, all adolescent youths and girls, dancing in a turbid wheel-like formation to woodwind music which was restive, foreboding. A haggish old woman interrupts, one who knows the secrets of Nature, of Spring. The adolescents whom she comes to enlighten are still of undetermined sex. They mix happily, spontaneously, but Spring is the season for fertility, for recreation. The groups seperate, quarrel, play self-consciously for the first time. A sage appears, the eldest the clan. Face down he asks the bless of the earth and new energy comes seizes...
...Gluckliche Hand. Nerves were so atingle from the sheer physical force of Le Sacre that when the brief perform-ance was over many had almost forgotten Die Glückliche Hand, the curtain raiser. Yet like the Sacre the Schönberg piece can be counted as experimental music. It is pantomime opera, takes only a little more than 15 minutes to perform. Its subject is a simple one: a man in the pursuit of happiness is constantly thwarted by fate in the person of an elusive woman. Schönberg created only one singing character-the Man, harrowingly played...
...terrace, gold walls against a blue curtain of sky, slightly resembles the island on which Shakespeare's less readily perplexed but equally worldly expatriates of The Tempest encountered magic after storm. Owned by a physicist named Stephen Field, it is the scene of a party given by his daughter Ann to six friends. They are: Pat Farley, with whom Ann is in love; Tom Ames and his wife, Hope, who loves their children; Norman Rose; Alice Kendall, who loves Rose; and Lily Malone, an actress whose acid witticisms to her companions are in the best manner of earlier Barry...