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...lofty or too fast") and in the spectacle of a mad Lady MacBird sweetening the land with bouquets and aerosol deodorant. To assert that MacBird rapes the old Swan with no intelligence and no compassion is evidently to miss the point, for Miss Garson makes no claims for her idiom or for her pentameters. "I worked for four months with Shakespeare in front of me," she reports, "so I know the difference between a clever propagandist and a great playright...
Besides Gitter's, there are three truly polished performances. Stephen Kaplan, as Erwin, acts out The Boss's dilemma in an underplayed, hysterically funny idiom. Kathryn Walker plays an actress in and out of character with precisely the right degree of mannerism, preserving her identity as both a woman and a woman of the theatre. And Arthur Friedman, despite gestures which become too broad a little too often, is a properly ugly, self-assured and obedient cultural bureaucrat...
...verses by Li T'ai-Po and other Chinese poets as texts for tenor, contralto and orchestra, and wrote his farewell in Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), his most personal and by all odds his best work. Scored in a rich, late-romantic idiom, its bursts of sweetness are coated with vinegar, its drawn-out lines of resignation elevated by a faith in the enduring human spirit...
...composers were colleagues at the University of Chicago. Both works begin with Schoenbergian flurries of pianistic cacophony; both depend for internal variety on the alternaton of different timbres, registers, and pianistic effects; and both are long--perhaps too long for the basically epigrammatic nature of the twelve-tone idiom. Without demeaning the compositions themselves, I must say that by the time Blackwood got to the Perkins Caprice, the startling newness and intriguing qualities of the style had worn off, and the concert came dangerously close to becoming tiresome...
...style from that of the music on the first half of the program. There are telling differences, however: Ives' melody lines are much longer, and he is careful to relieve the cacophony by recalling more traditional modes of expression. His style is basically an expansion of the tonal idiom rather than a negation...