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...Fields. Though they have since moved into major concert halls, Gamson, Oxenburg and Co. still produce works that are rarely if ever done by other companies in the U.S. or abroad-Gluck's Le Cadi Dupe, Purcell's Witch of Endor, Cherubini's Medea, Handel's Julius Caesar. Despite packed houses, the company's current deficit runs to about $35,000 a season-which in the opera business really adds up to a howling financial success. Contributions ("We never know where we're going to get the money") cover the losses...
Author White, his country's only considerable novelist since the death in 1946 of Henry Handel Richardson, has filled his most ambitious book to date ostensibly with the adventure story of an explorer. But beneath the surface, it is really a self-examining essay in which the continent's odd geography, zoology and climate serve as a metaphor for White's real theme-the uncharted journey into the dry, unblazed interior of the Australian mind. Landscape is the protagonist. It is said of one character: "His failures took shape, but in flowers and mountains." Another character speaks...
...final work was Ode to the Virginian Voyage, written a year ago by Randall Thompson '20 for the Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission. This big piece is in the tradition of the great Baroque "occasional" odes; in fact it is about two-thirds Handel and one-third Thompson. The third of the seven movements is a first cousin to the "Londonderry Air," and the fourth is based on the hymn "O God Our Help In Ages Past." There are fanfares and a full-blown fugue and finale. This is all effective writing, and the chorus produced some glorious sounds...
...over the baton in Fair Lady, some of the singers asked him to continue his out-of-hours musicmaking. Result: the Allers opera workshop, which in short order sang, without sets or costumes, Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Verdi's Masked Ball and, as a Christmas special, Handel's Messiah. (Audiences usually consist of a dozen or so friends and relatives...
...hand of the piano, which is equal to the flute in trio sonata style, could be heard. In Bach's Second Violin Sonata Michael Day played with admirable musicianship; Bertram Baldwin accompanied at the harpsichord. Violinist David Hurwitz closed his part of the concert with a fine performance of Handel's Sonata in F. He played with restraint and a warm tone, and was ably assisted by Jonathan Thackeray, harpsichord, and Mary Davidoff, continuo...