Word: faustian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remained an interesting oddity as a composer; he premiered his version of Goethe's Faust at La Scala in 1868 only to see it booed off the stage after two performances because of its experimentation with Wagnerian techniques. Intellectually more challenging than Gounod's lovely but un-Faustian version, more dramatic than Berlioz' rambling opéra de concert, it suffers from a tendency to bombast. In this cut version the work gets a rather tame performance, but it still bears the mark of a fine musical-literary mind and is well worth the listening...
...Benedict, now a U.S. Information Agency officer: "He's almost a Greek tragic hero, a vast commercial property being used by Geritol. He has strong opinions about the debasement of values by commercialism, but he can't condemn commercialism now. He's under a kind of Faustian pact with the devil." Says Laural Whipkey: "Charlie will play until he's beaten. That's the kind of guy he is." Van Doren's parents tell him that the show is taking up too much of his time, that he can't possibly be thinking...
...Song of the Happy Shepherd through the "Crazy Jane" poems. Later came selections from James Stephens, Padraic Colum, Brian Merriman, Padraic Pearse, the prolific Anonymous, and others. With the able assistance of Colgate Salsbury '57 (on temporary loan from Elsinore), she also included the love scene from Yeats' early Faustian drama, The Countess Cathleen...
...Plough), Novelist Baron has switched easily from Sten guns to harquebuses, splashes his pages with just the right mixture of bravery and bravura. But beyond that, he captures what few historical novelists even pursue-the moment of impact between two cultures, Western man of the high Renaissance forcing his Faustian will on the passive, hieratic Aztec civilization as it muses in "a trance of centuries...
...paintings four years ago, had an immediate "theatrical reaction." Moreover, he found the paintings full of "a morality I respect." Stravinsky decided to translate Hogarth into opera. He got distinguished help from Poet W.H. Auden and Brooklyn-born Chester Kallman, who worked up an English libretto with a Faustian theme; Poet T.S. Eliot lent a hand with the final polishing...