Word: hussey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really honest opinion of your work is to get in front of an audience that pays to see you. Then you know in a minute if you're bad." Among the players who have kept the audiences paying for Broadway revivals: Eve Arden, Barry Sullivan, Ruth Hussey, Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, Sylvia Sidney, Reginald Denny, Jane Cowl Ann Harding, Laraine Day, Martha Scott the late Dame May Whitty...
...production of Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, a Scottish morality play written in 1540 and last performed in 1554, was a high point of the festival. There was a production of the André Gide Hamlet. ("A moving experience," reported the New York Times's Dyneley Hussey of the famous soliloquies, though Hamlet in French, played by Jean-Louis Barrault, kept his voice pitched at "a tart oboe rather than the rich clarinet of English.") And for trimmings there was Highland music, bagpipe parades and dancing in West Princes Street Gardens, below Edinburgh Castle...
...provide music, Hussey asked Britain's Benjamin Britten, composer of dissonant operas (Peter Grimes, Rape of Lucretia), to write a cantata to words from 18th Century Poet Christopher Smart's poem, Rejoice in the Lamb. Composer Michael Tippett wrote a special Fanfare for the occasion, which was considered most impressive when perspiringly played in the church's gallery by -the Northamptonshire Regimental Band...
This jolting dose of culture was such a hit with St. Matthew's plain parishioners that Parson Hussey decided to do it every year. Each St. Matthew's Day (Sept. 21) he commissions at least one new work, like Sutherland's Crucifixion. The congregation raises the funds...
Unhealthy Titillations. Says Parson Hussey: "Artists are looking for firmer spiritual guidance in their work, and working for the church provides them with the kind of inspiration and background they need. Through works of art man probably reaches the highest achievement of which he is capable, and so such works are surely the most appropriate offerings to God." Art as an aid to devotion seems to him quite secondary: "I don't believe in providing worshipers with emotional titillations. I think it's a very unhealthy idea. But it's true that, as they have grown...