Word: electras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE
...would like D.A. Lunan to know that in 1920 Guglielmo Marconi told my father, Admiral Count Millo, that he was sure he had intercepted intelligent signals from out of space on the radio station of his yacht Electra...
...becalmed on the way to Troy, Agamemnon (W.B. Brydon) sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to win the gods' favor. His embittered wife Clytemnestra takes a lover, Aegisthus, who murders Agamemnon upon his return from the war. The dead king's son, Orestes, goaded to revenge by his sister Electra, proceeds to murder his mother and Aegisthus. Rabe has drastically minimized Electra's role, but he provides two Clytemnestras, possibly to differentiate the mother's grief from the lust and vengefulness of the mistress (Rae Allen...
Minos Volonakis has taken another tack. He views Medea as a social tragedy in which the heroine is victimized as a racial alien and violated as a woman simply because she is a woman. Greece's Irene Papas, who has often played aggrieved and grieving women (Z, Electra, Iphigenia in Aulis), brings to the role a controlled intensity, an innate intelligence, and an implacably stubborn anger. To humanize the part, however, is to make it somewhat less than awesome in its sweeping horror. The paradox remains that the Greek playwrights gave us a gallery of women who bewail their...
Besides these albums, there were other good things to choose from: new albums from Bonnie Raitt and Gordon Lightfoot, Peter Yarrow's intelligently romantic debut solo album, and Colors of the Day (Electra), Judy Collins's greatest hits, which would be worth the price for her versions of "My Father" and "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" alone. Below the Salt (Chrysalis) was a major breakthrough for Steeleye Span one of the few British folk groups to successfully infuse new excitement into traditional madrigals with stirring musical arrangements and tightly knit choral work. Their lead singer. Maddy Prior...