Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With this Tennessee Williams-toned opening scene, audiences at Tanglewood's Theater-Concert Hall were introduced last week to a new one-act trilingual opera entitled Tale for a Deaf Ear, by Manhattan Composer Mark Bucci (rhymes with kootchy). For the Gateses, things quickly go from bad to hideous; Laura tosses a glass of Scotch in Tracy's face, and Tracy, rising to slug her, falls to the floor, dead of a heart attack. A repentant Laura kneels and prays that he be restored to life. While a pit chorus explains what is going on, three legendary miracles...
...flashed his credentials (his do-it-yourself World Passport 000.001). Bounced back to West German cops, Davis responded with lectures on world citizenship when asked for proper papers, pettishly tore up his passport and mewled, "I don't want to go back to those evil men" when ear-bent cops threatened to toss him back to the border guards Numbed by the nonsense, the lawmen in advertently let Davis flit free long enough to hold a press conference ("German ground is sympathetic to my ideas") bagged him again a few hours later, then nailed him for good after...
...walk into a shop and pull the switch and say, 'O.K., everybody out. The place is on strike,' and they would all run out and sign up." There was an occasional virulent clash of words. New York's Senator Irving Ives blew up as a jug-eared Manhattan lawyer buzzed the ear of his gum-chewing client, tough Anthony Topazio. Said Ives: "It's high time he learned to talk...
Puppet on a String. Giuffre's own compositions are written without the aid of an instrument-he just uses "the inner ear." They are often inspired by the green countryside that he and his fellow soloists roll through in their orange-and-brown Volkswagen bus, and written down in odd moments between performances. The results are unusually appealing, sometimes suggesting purposeful musical doodles, sometimes the dance of a rubber-jointed, graceful puppet on a string...
...First," Guthrie said, "the director must get to know the play thoroughly. He should read it again and again. I personally work more by ear than by eye; I find it best to read a script aloud to friends or family, because it compels me to go slowly. Any one of you could doubtless stump me on a fact about Hamlet in three seconds; but not six of you know the play as well...