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After the intermission, a smaller group--the Summer School Chamber Singers--sang six Elizabethan Madrigals. The change from the Hindemith was striking, and quite effective. The blending between the different voice parts, and between the voices and the instrumental ensemble that accompanied several of the madrigals, was superb...
After an intermission, the Summer School Chamber Singers, with their own instrumentalists, will present four madrigals from the Elizabethan Age. These madrigals show the Italian influence which prevailed in English court life at that time...
...Miss Hayes essays Rosalind. We are supposed to believe that this gray-haired, begowned lady well into her sixties is a young girl disguised as a young man (an Elizabethan spectator would be expected to take this lady for a boy playing a girl disguised as a young man--the kind of multiple twist that only Genet in The Maids has been able to bring off to perfection...
...Enck's special field is Elizabethan literature: his Ph.D. thesis was on Ben Jonson, and his course at Harvard will be English S-123, a study of several Shakespearian plays. Dr. Enck also reads widely in modern poetry (Wallace Stevens is his favorite...
...little praise for the centuries in-between-the years which produced Samuel Johnson, Tennyson, Wordsworth, and Keats. He does not hestitate to explain why it is that two periods many years apart should arouse similarly favorable responses. Both of the periods he prefers, the Elizabethan and the modern, are known for their experimentation with literary form. And in Dr. Enck's eye, this is a quality in literature to be desired above all others. He is one of those scholars for whom the study of literature is sometimes best described as the study of change...