Word: edipus
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...just the co-edipus complex at work...
From the sixty males who tried out twelve were chosen, seven of whom were members. The roles and those playing them followed by the four Radcliffe idlers are: Edipus, Munro L. Lyeth '37. Piresias, Arthur Seathmary '37; Young Soldier, David A. Barber '37. Second Soldier, Paul Killiam '37; Narrator, William M. Hunt 2d. '36; Anubis, George H. Edgell, Jr. '37; Creon, Richard C. Sullivan '35; Captain. Robert I McKee '37; Ghost, James W. Tower '35; Old Shepherd, Stephen Greene '37; Messenger, Glenn Morris '38. Drunken Man Harvey Huston '38. Jocasia, Jean Goodale; Sphinx, Lois Hall; Antigone, Doris Reimer; Matron, Emeline...
Last week for the first time in the U. S., Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony Orchestra presented Stravinsky's (Edipus Rex, an opera-oratorio which had its world première last spring in Paris...
Sophocles told the story 2,000 years ago of (Edipus, the kindly King of Thebes, Fate's most luckless victim. Jean Cocteau took the Greek, made a text of it for Stravinsky, gave it to Monsieur J. Danielou who put it into Latin. In Latin, then, scorning all theatrical device, Stravinsky presented his (Edipus. He had a speaker (in Boston last week it was Paul Leyssac), to tell the story step by step. He had specific soloists-Charles Hackett for (Edipus, Margaret Matzenauer for Jocastá, Fraser Gange for Tiresias-and the Harvard Glee Club for his chorus...
...Edipus, Stravinsky holds, is his nearest approach to pure music, the expression of his most complete emancipation from "story" music. But like most men who set formulas for themselves, he has overlooked the divine spark within himself, the spark that made the Sophoclean drama the greatest of human tragedies. In spite of himself, Stravinsky's (Edipus music is dramatic, tragedy-telling, alarming, dreadsome-in short, as exciting as any catastrophe, as comprehensible as any of the passions by which Fate works its will upon the simple soul...