Word: epigram
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Simplicity often seems to have the scope of an epigram, and the plays at Lowell House seem to universalize Blitzstein's lyrics even more by their free sweep through time and space. Wakeen Ray-Riv is director and choreographer of "The Harpies," set in ancient Thrace. A farce based on Apollonius, it is Blitzstein's first opera to his own text, performed only once before, in 1953 at the Manhattan School of Music. The new staging here and emphasis on dance is a vital response to Blitzstein's dedication to popular art and depends on the spirit of community...
...message is also for export. Chorusing Kenneth Tynan's epigram ("Life begins tomorrow"), Booker addresses to Neophiliacs everywhere a sad cautionary tale out of Ecclesiastes: "There is no new thing under...