Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moon for the Misbegotten. There was Anabaptist and King John by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, three Shakespeares, two Sartres, Sophocles' Oedipus, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Shaw's Pygmalion, a Renaissance knockabout by Niccolò Machiavelli, a late 19th century melodrama by French Primitive Painter Henri Rousseau, works by Wilde, Sheridan and Molière-besides three plays by Czech author Karel Čapek and two carminative political satires by young Czech playwrights...
...Queen, a cantata by the English composer William Sterndale Bennett. His fellow Victorians regarded him as better than Brahms. Today he is one of the forgotten men of English music. The years have been equally hard on other romantics on the Butler program. Belgium's Henri Vieuxtemps was perhaps the greatest violinist of his day, but until Cellist Jascha Silberstein performed his Cello Concerto in A Minor, it had never been heard in the U.S. Sigismond Thalberg was Liszt's great rival at the keyboard and a composer of considerable skill. Yet his lively fantasy on The Barber...
...magnitude of their own reputations, had all been friends of Ungaretti's, and celebrants of his art. Collected in Il Tacciuno del Vecchio (The Notebook of an Old Man) is the homage of a generation: letters, essays, a poem by the Mexican Octavio Oaz and one by Henri Thuile...
...Henri's imagery is sometimes simple and immediate. The day before the carnival leaves town there...
...last eighteen pages of the book are essays on topics ranging from Art (he likes it and tells us so in three thousand words too many) to Cliches (they should be given new I.D.'s and allowed a private life of their own). Mr. Henri's prose essays are reminiscent of the way a certain kind of professor talks. Henri drops names of books and artists with heavy distracting thuds, more to demonstrate his learning than to delineate his ideas...