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Last week the New York City Opera embraced the trend with not one but three premieres on successive nights: Lukas Foss's Griffelkin, Hugo Weisgall's Esther and, most provocatively, Ezra Laderman's Marilyn (yes, that Marilyn). All three were designed by Jerome Sirlin (who did Broadway's Kiss of the Spider Woman), a dazzling visual stylist whose fluid use of video projections instead of built sets annihilates space and time and gives his productions an exhilarating sense of visual freedom...
...then working backward and forward from it. The historical medicine is enlivened with spoonfuls of pop-culture sugar. (In one old TV ad, Marilyn Monroe urges a gas-station attendant to "put Royal Triton in Cynthia's little tummy." Cynthia is her new car.) Not least important is Paul Foss's urgent theme music, one of the best TV scores since The Civil...
Harvard University Band--presents a tribute to Lukas Foss. Sanders Theatre, 3 p.m. $6 general; $4 for students and seniors. Tickets are available at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office...
...Works of Lukas Foss--by Lukas Foss.Paine Hall, Davison Room...
According to Foss, Harvard's semester system will make implementation of the stricter guidelines relatively smooth and all the changes will be internal. Also, the decision will only effect "professor-publishing" and not requests for copies by individual students...