Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes." I suspect that the fanfare has been, at least in part, an attempt to cover its neglect of modern opera, for "Grimes" seems to be the only work in the current repertoire that is less than 30 years old. This is not wholly the fault of the Met, since it has staged several unsuccessful premieres in recent decades; the empty seats in the Opera House Thursday night showed that the responsibility also lies with the public. But the Met has not gone out of its conservative way to convince its audiences that important things have...
...cows had lost their pasture to government prospectors; they were thin with hunger. Lucien himself had not yet received a sou of the 16,000 francs yearly indemnitv promised him. Without compensation how could he buy a new pasture? His tiny wife Marguerite railed that it was all his fault in the first place. When the strangers came from Paris he had let them dig holes in the fields. She had seen Lucien also with a pick in hand. "What are you doing," she had called shrewishly, "looking for your fortune?" "Maybe," grinned Lucien. But the strangers never refilled...
...during the next few months--but it seems to exist chiefly because of its prettiness. The romance between Cable and Liat, which is handled quite remarkably up to the moment Cable begins to sing, loses a lot of its intensity by being interrupted for such a number. Perhaps the fault is more the singer's than the song's; William Tabbert does little more than put the right words onto the right notes. Or perhaps any song would be weak in that particular scene. At any rate, something is wrong with "Younger Than Springtime...
...think that its main fault lies in the plot. Perhaps a more accurate statement would be that its main fault lies in the interpretation given its plot by this or, I believe, any non-Italian-speaking spectator. Some crucial situations in the film seemed incredible and several episodes were confusing to follow; when shown in its native country this would undoubtedly not be so. (There is a paradox in this--the half-a-dozen great Italian post-war films imported to America have had a larger audience here than in Italy. Since they have all dealt with the agonies...
...piece avoided the standard amateur musical fault of relying on a lot of individual hamming. The dances, directed by James Venable, were exceptional, especially in view of the miniscule proportions of the Clubhouse stage. Robert Purinton and Roger Butler, the solo dancers, managed to mix extreme competence and gentle burlesque with a delicacy and enthusiasm that made the ballet sections much more than mere time-fillers...