Word: dramatist
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Once when he was a guest at the Palm Springs ranch of Movie Mogul Joseph M. Schenck, the desert air was riven around 3 a.m. by a blood-chilling series of screams and cries. Headed by the burly Schenck, who clutched a revolver, the bathrobed guests (among them Dramatist Moss Hart) hurried to the scene...
Composed by Handel and set by William Congreve, the Restoration dramatist, in 1743. "Semele" is known principally for its arias, "O Sleep why dost thou leave me?" and "Where'er You Walk...
Back in the 70th century, when the great Castilian dramatist CalderÓon de la Barca wrote the most sumptuous of all the autos sacramentales (Belshazzar's Feast, The Divine Orpheus), these religious dramatizations, similar to the earlier English mystery plays, reached their peak popularity. After that, their appeal dwindled and they all but disappeared from the holy-days celebrations outside the churches of the Spanish-speaking world. But in remote Oruro, 12,000 ft. up in the Bolivian Andes, the auto still flourishes with strong Indian overtones, and last week, as usual at carnival time, the show...
Written by the Restoration dramatist William Congreve and set by Handel in 1743, the work has since been converted into a secular oratorio, and excerpts from it are often heard. But the Musical Society's presentation of the operatic version will be the first such performance in this country...
There was plenty of reason for the King's ministers to speak ill of the book. It was edited by fiery Philosopher-Dramatist Denis Diderot, and he had made it a good deal more than a compilation of all the knowledge that was available at the middle of the 18th century. To many a Frenchman it became the voice of Reason itself-a major intellectual weapon of the Revolution, one of the brightest ornaments of the Enlightenment, the foundation stone of the new secularism. Though Frenchmen have long since ceased to read it, they have never ceased to revere...