Word: hectors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover: acrylic and tempera by Hector Garrido...
...ENFANCE DU CHRIST (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). Hector Berlioz's oratorio, performed by Giorgio Tozzi, Charles Anthony, Helen Vanni, Sherrill Milnes and Asa Berberian, assisted by the John Butler Dance Theater and the Camerata Singers. Repeat...
...Cover: Acrylic paint on Masonite, by Argentine-born Hector Garrido...
...people have been rude about Hector Berlioz," says English Conductor Colin Davis, and he wishes they would quit. Alas, poor Berlioz has suffered more than his share. In 1829, when he was 25, he submitted his passionately theatrical piece for soprano and orchestra, Cléopâtre, to the Prix de Rome committee. It was rejected with a scolding from one of the judges, who said, "You refuse to write like everybody else. Even your rhythms are new. You would invent new modulations if such a thing were possible." The story goes that when Gioachino Rossini was shown Berlioz...
When it was all over, this reviewer was left with the memory of reading the great play and imagining a magnificant trumpet fanfare heralding the fight between Hector and Ajax, a sound interpreted in this production by a sickly goathorn whining offstage. Every time it sounded one expected a character from a P.G. Wodehouse musical to emerge saying "Your car is ready, Lord Wooster," or something. But that brings up a whole category of fun things you can do with Shakespeare, and we'd better let well enough alone...