Word: directors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jesse L. Jackson, D.D., director of Operation Breadbasket...
Boston Symphony Music Director Erich Leinsdorf insists that "the real crisis is musical, and it can only be solved musically. For over two decades there has been an increasing interest in baroque music. The orchestras have done nothing about it. There is a growing interest in avant-garde music. Nothing is being done." No one objects to preserving the masterpieces of the past, as a museum keeps Rembrandts. But some musical experts feel that there may be more orchestral museums than are needed. English Conductor Colin Davis, 41, a strong possibility to head either the New York Philharmonic...
...Director Michael Kahn puts the sig nature of his determined intent on the play from the outset. An improvisatory prologue serves as a metaphor for the work. In sweatshirts, football jerseys and dungarees, members of the cast drib ble a basketball, wrestle, somersault and shadowbox. Someone pumps back and forth on a child's swing. The seat of that swing will later serve as Harry of Monmouth's throne. The rising intensity of sticks beaten rapidly together, a rhythmic tapestry of violence, suggests a neighborhood gang rumble. One knows in one's slightly chilled bones that this...
...strenuously imaginative production some experiments must fail. Director Kahn has the leaders of France actually speak French while a man and a woman translate into microphones and loudspeakers simultaneously, in U.N. fashion. The effect is clever but distracting. On the other hand, a sense of the seeming invulnerability of the French forces is aptly conveyed by having them outfitted like hockey goalies. Initially, this creates the illusion of invincible force, but later it is revealed as the symbol of futile totalitarianism...
...over. When the first Italian westerns washed up on American shores, audiences were delighted with their frenzied hyperbole, their melodramatic distortions of American cinematic folklore. Everyone assumed they were great satire and that Director Sergio Leone was either a big put-on or a superb con man. Leone's newest effort, Once Upon a Time in the West, with a major cast and a lot of big studio money behind it, proves that he is simply a serious bore...