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Incantatory Drones. Ever since he wrote his first major work, Carmina Burana (1936), Orff has steadily pared away the body of Western musical devices-themes, counterpoints, harmonic progressions and so on-to arrive at a skeletal idiom of powerfully primitive, repetitive sounds. In Prometheus, what little melody was left was expertly sung by U.S. Baritone Carlos Alexander as Prometheus and Australian Mezzo Althea Bridges as the tormented lo. The other singers, obscured by grotesque masks and headdresses, declaimed the drama in incantatory drones, while the orchestra rolled along in seemingly endless ostinato figures or erupted with brash punctuations...
BRECHT: But none the less Heinrich, lieber Heinrich it is an honor when they do your work, wherever, whenever. As for however, why that McBain youth meant no harm in adapting your Master Builder. He only meant, no doubt, to give the idiom a more modern ring, and to snip away that overgrowth of symbols. There are such a lot of symbols in the play, Heinrich...
...artist credits his period as a billboard painter, following his departure from the University of Minnesota, with pointing him toward both the idiom and the mystique of the open road. He uses cars, planes and the notion of motion generally to convey what he considers basic American traits: devotion to progress and prodigality, record-shattering creativity and waste...
...birds-Lady Bird, Lyndon Bird and all the other birds." Leaflets turned out by the Viet Cong are crude and peppered with misspellings and misstatements (Newark becomes Neward; South Bend, Southden; and Grand Rapids, Gerand Rapid). Though the leaflets show a growing sophistication, current American idiom often booby-traps...
...nondescript 3½-story building on Manhattan's Lower East Side, is a honeycomb of workshops intended to serve both experienced and fledgling actors, and would-be playwrights and directors. The goal of the ensemble's activity is to speak to Negro audiences in a Negro idiom about the Negro situation-even at the risk of encouraging a kind of cultural separatism. "We've been very loose as far as ideological manifestoes go," says Ward, "but we are Negro oriented and we don't apologize for that." The ensemble has distributed posters to beauty parlors, barbershops...