Word: epical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wondrous Seedbed. Thus, in one epic week, the members of the A.B.A. paid honor not so much to the seedbed of human liberty (for that lies in each human heart and not in legal systems or in history) but rather to the seedbed of the rule of law, which makes liberty possible in social practice and which holds out promise...
...summary might indicate, Ashton has collected a menage of rather dissonant symbols and attempted to bring them together in a harmonious structure that only partly succeeds. Ashton must be seen in reaction to 19th century "realism," in whose place he would substitute a reconciliation of the Romantic with the Epic. He attempts to involve the audience emotionally (Romantically) and then to shock them intellectually (Epically...
Producer-Director Stanley Kramer ranged expensively (budget: $4,000,000) over much of Spain in shooting his brave try at an epic. To woo realism, he faked virtually nothing; even his big gun. an awesome example of the perversity of inanimate objects, is actually what it seems. To give his film size, Kramer set it against Spain's brooding mountain grandeur and its trackless plains, its magnificent cathedrals and haunted, fairy-tale towns. He enlisted the services of Dictator Franco's army and thousands of Spanish extras...
...recordings of Orpheus and Eurydice break with tradition by casting a male singer as Orpheus, normally sung by a contralto. (Gluck himself wrote the role for a male contralto, later rearranged it for tenor in Paris, where castrati singers were frowned upon.) Of the two versions, Epic's (in French) is more authentic historically, but less effective, chiefly because Canadian Tenor Leopold Simoneau's silver-hued voice seems less moving in the role of the suffering Orpheus than the lyric baritone of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, imaginatively cast by Decca in its German-language version. The supporting casts...
Mozart: La Finta Semplice (Dorothea Siedberg, Edith Oravez. George Maran, August Jaresch, Alois Pernerstorfer: the Camerata Academica of the Salzburg Mozarteum conducted by Bernhard Paumgartner; Epic, 2 LPs). Mozart's first opera here gets a busy but clear-lined first complete performance on records. Child Prodigy Mozart handled Carlo Goldoni's boisterous love plot like a man who has been there before-a breathtaking performance by a twelve-year...