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...Berry, is only nominally Pippin's father. The prince's and the show's true parents are three other musicals: Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!, Oh, What a Lovely War! and Cabaret. From Stop the World come the circusy atmosphere and the little-everyman-lost sentiments. From Lovely War comes the mood of ironic incongruity in which some people are dying while others are dancing, each group visible and oblivious to the other. It is a form of double vision. The sight of the people dancing makes play-goers see the people...
...quite appropriate in the Berg Quartet. Here, unhappily, the energetic intensity of the performance at times bordered on hysteria--the only moments of the evening when solid technical mastery began to waver. Too many crunchy or strained fortissimi, and an over-emphasis of percussive aspects resulted in something like Everyman's stereotype of a 'modern' work; and the audience response was stereotypically reserved. But all of this is contrary not only to the spirit of the score, but also to Berg's expressed attitude toward the performance of his works. Consider his enthusiastic praise of one production of Wozzeck (Leningrad...
...this plot, Davies' libretto fashions an Everyman kind of morality opera, in which cardinals, white abbots, Latin-spouting priests, heretics and jesters parade in and out of stylized throne rooms and courtrooms while Taverner's destiny is worked out. Allegorical characters such as Joking Jesus, a Pope/Antichrist and Jester/Death trail them in symbolic profusion. Director Michael Geliot (on loan from the Welsh National Opera) and Designer Ralph Koltai have built their set around a huge tower of seesaw platforms on which the merits-and fates-of Taverner and his antagonists are literally and figuratively weighed in the balance...
...viewed seriously by many, and still is by some." Mass interest in the occult indicates "a kind of victory over the supernatural, a demystification of what were once fearful and threatening cultural elements. What were once dark secrets known only through initiation into arcane orders are now exposed to everyman...
WHEN ART steps off her pedestal to embrace everyman, she becomes a daily social concern. When the problems of art and design are looked at as the problems of everyman, they become the problems of family, government, education, and all social institutions. The late Walter Gropius, founder and head of the Bauhaus (1919-33)--the famous German design school--put art in such a position: art became intimate with the present, and took up the humanist torch to serve man and society. After fleeing from Nazi Germany, Gropius furthered this ideal as Chairman of the Department of Architecture at Harvard...