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Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge (West German Radio-Cologne Electronic Studios; Deutsche Grammophon) comes on like the launching of a thousand spaceships and fades out like a souped-up sound track for Hitchcock's The Birds; it happens to be the most communicative example of electronic music yet recorded. Midst a welter of high-decibel cacophony, the voice of a boy soprano speaks...
...George Hitchcock's play, the 1960 winner of the Stanley Award from the New York City Writer's Conference, is a simple, almost fable-like tale. The citizens of a small French town, Sandaraque, are reknowned for their virtue, a reputation which was "more than they could bear" since it was so unjustified...
...Hitchcock's dialogue is consistently well-paced (if not delivered with consistent smoothness) and often piquant with dry wit. "You have the sensitivity of an artichoke" Muscari tells his jailer soon before the execution, and then is told he has visitors. "Are they publishers?" he asks quickly, but they are only advocates...
John Davis as Muscari is magnificent. His sense of timing is superb, and greatly enhances Hitchcock's best lines, which are his. His movements are graceful and stylized just enough to lend the air of a fable to the play. And his eyes give a performance all their own: sometimes soulful, sometimes brilliant, often haughty...
...Hitchcock deserves his award. The Busy Martyr is welcome relief from much of the insipid summer fare often presented at straw hat theaters, and is well worth a trip to Medford...