Word: harping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ages, the nation's most avid collectors of musical antiquities present an early church musical drama in the original Latin text. The vocal parts suggest everything from Gregorian chant to folk song, the orchestra includes such authentic curiosities as a rebec, a vielle and a minstrel's harp. The result is a sound as finely jeweled, as warmly colored, and often as moving as an expanse of stained glass...
...Tracy, who bears a certain physical resemblance to Mayor Curley in his political prime, plays the part with more Celtic charm than a carload of leprechauns. The Last Hurrah could easily become one of the biggest sentimental successes since Going My Way left the public quivering like one vast harp...
Sweet Sue Evans (Dot LP). Songstress Evans, a onetime philosophy student, runs through a collection of pretty numbers in a pale but pretty voice, occasionally accompanying herself on a lightly swinging harp. Sample saw from her pseudo-philosophical kit: "Nothing is forever, always is a lie/ I can only love...
...women loved each other "with a love surpassing that of friendship." Their ardent relationship was only intensified by the fact that male admirers fairly swarmed around both of them-readily swooning when the "dazzling Juliette" draped her graceful neck around a harp and plucked a few plangent twangs, readily reaching for underdoses of poison when frustrated amour demanded the appearances ol a tragic exit...
...Charles St. Actors Company has given The Grass Harp a rather beautiful, lyrical production. The small stage, faced by the audience at both ends, seems exactly the thing for conveying the intimate lonliness of four characters who retreat into a treehouse; Esther Small's sets--especially the massive tree, but also the not-quite-perfectly-shuttered living room--provide extraordinarily fitting play areas and suggest even a forest without seeming cramped. Resourceful lighting--making use of darkness, candles, and even flashlights also takes full creative advantage of the possibilities of a small theater. Between the sets and the lighting...