Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WAGNER: DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NüRNBERG (RCA Victor; 5 LPs). There is no single coruscating star unless it is Conductor Joseph Keilberth, who makes the long score snap with life rarely caught even when recorded, as this was, during a performance (the opening of the rebuilt National Theater in Munich). Basses Otto Wiener and Hans Hotter give their well-established interpretations as Hans Sachs and Veit Pogner, but the freshest voices belong to two Americans, Soprano Claire Watson as Eva and Tenor Jess Thomas as Walther...
...beginning, Cassidy is a simple revolutionary, spitting at the carriage trade while he digs ditches to support his mother (Flora Robson) and sister (Sian Phillips), both doomed to die in genteel poverty. The teakettle warmth of Irish family life simmers comfortably until Director Jack Cardiff plunges into the eye of street fights during the Transport Strike and the bloody Easter Rising of 1916, catching the awful impact of thudding billy clubs, of bullets and bombs and sudden death, letting his camera soak up the slaughter in pitiless detail...
...soldiers is to drink up the wine cellars and conquer the village whorehouse. The enlisted men fraternize with a stray German patrol. The nobleman, crafty and impotent, pursues his plan to get his wife impregnated by an American officer so that his thousand-year-old family will not die out. The fanatic Major Falconer refortifies medieval fortifications against a German tank attack that nobody else believes will come; the scholarly Captain Beckman buries the statuary and moves the paintings to the ancient dungeons to protect them...
...that spin with laughter and nausea. There are battle scenes crackling with the unreality of sudden death. And at the end, the Germans scale the castle walls, while the gargoyles scream and drops of blood blossom like roses. Superbly and movingly, the men of the absurd 314th Replacement Cadre die. For what? Perhaps four hours' stemming of the German onslaught...
Alfred said that he will continue revising the play throughout the summer and early fall. He is not yet sure whether his heroine will live or die...