Word: heroding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dialogue rings hollow set against the worldly diatribes of such lay villains as Herod Antipas (Jose Ferrer) and Pontius Pilate (Telly Savalas). "And he walked on water!" reports an aide. To which Pilate replies...
...filmed it in Hollywood and in Glen Canyon, Utah. And he summoned unto him so many actors great and small that Galilee often seems but a stone's throw from Desilu. The long, long road to Calvary is lined with the usual yea-verily types (Claude Rains as Herod the Great, Charlton Heston as John the Baptist) plus, it would seem, any other celebrity ready to trade top billing for a chance to play holy charades. Jesus cures a cripple (Sal Mineo), a blind man (Ed Wynn) and a leper (Shelley Winters). He bears his cross under the stern...
...effortless, flawless soprano swooped and soared above Strauss's heavy, quirky orchestration even when she was writhing on the floor to entice the lecherous Herod. Her phrasing was impeccable, her tone as silver-pure as a Nordic winterscape. Even John the Baptist would have lost his head...
...persuade the Jews to surrender. He believed it to be God's will that Rome, the mightier culture, should prevail. In their bullheadedness, the Jews ignored the classic portents of disaster: chariots darting through the clouds, a cow giving birth to a lamb in the Temple of Herod. When Palestine was finally crushed, its people scattered in the Diaspora that was to be their fate for nearly 19 centuries, Josephus, the survivor, coolly observed: "Such were the agonies to which the Jews condemned themselves...
...PLAY OF HEROD (2 LPs; Decca) is a 12th century music drama reconstructed from a manuscript belonging to the French Benedictine monastery of Fleury. It begins with the archangel's announcement of the birth of Christ and ends when the holy family returns to Galilee after the slaying of the innocents. With its chanted Latin lines, the music sounds strange to 20th century ears-and might seem a trifle odd to medieval ghosts as well, for although the melodies were clearly indicated, rhythms and instruments were not. Scholars aided by a grant from the Ford Foundation prepared the work...