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Even if these worthy but obvious sentiments had been set with the wit of a Brecht or the irony of a Weill, the piece would still be weak. But Librettist Tage Danielsson is no Brecht, and Werle shares with Weill only three letters of their surnames. In an opera as dependent as this on sure- handed pastiche, Werle's parodies of American lounge acts and soulful Russian folk songs consistently fall flat. Surely, the company that premiered Conrad Susa's magical chamber opera Transformations in 1973 and has championed resident Composer Dominick Argento could have chosen a better piece...
GAUGUIN IN THE SOUTH SEAS, by Bengt Danielsson. In a levelheaded account of Gauguin's exile years in Tahiti and the neighboring Marquesas, Anthropologist Danielsson perceives the man without debasing the artist...
GAUGUIN IN THE SOUTH SEAS, by Bengt Danielsson. In a levelheaded account of Gauguin's exile years in Tahiti and the neighboring Marquesas, Anthropologist Danielsson perceives the man without debasing the artist...
Indecent Exposure. Bengt Danielsson is no art critic but an anthropologist who accompanied Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition to Polynesia, succumbed to the charm of the South Seas and moved his family to Tahiti in 1956. There he bumped into the legend of Gauguin, who spent his last years in Tahiti and in the nearby Marquesas and whose grave on Hiva Oa Island surveys the Pacific. Danielsson soon discovered what was for him an astonishing fact: none of Gauguin's many biographers had ever bothered to measure the legend in the place where so much...
Uncoached, Undazzled. Gauguin in the South Seas should surprise readers who have been accustomed to the legend of the man inspired by Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence and propagated by art dealers. Moreover, Biographer Danielsson stands in no perceptible awe of his subject's artistic stature...