Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most probing social drama, Crime in the Streets (ABC's Elgin Hour, Tues. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.), about the effect of grinding poverty on a sullen 18-year-old named Frankie (John Cassavetes). Author Reginald Rose's dialogue was blunt and crisp, with an authentic cadence and idiom. When a social worker (Robert Preston) asks Frankie why he is at home, just lying on his crumpled, ratty bed, he gets an unforgettable cry of anguish masked in a snarl: "Because I got a hole in my shirt and my brother's wearin' my underwear...
Poetrywise, Audience has contained works by Donald Hall, Byron Vazakas, John Hollander, and Edward Honig. The second issue printed a previously unpublished scene from William Alfred's Agamemnon in the same modern idiom which characterizes the reworking of the play as it recently appeared. The most remarkable of the single poems, to my mind, is Honig's Snowbird Blues, in which his jerky rhythm and unusual images create a bizarre and troubling effect...
...covers that in all haste which voluntarily she showed"), he has no light to shed on what was up the gentleman's. Courting, "in the modern sense," did not exist until the 12th century, when the troubadours discovered the art of "rewriting ancient tales in a new romantic idiom, with as little conscience as a team of film scriptwriters falsifying the Old Testament." Since then, courting has passed-tfirough many phases...
...Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson; Columbia). Manhattan's Composer Wallingford Riegger, 69, was one of the "bad boys" of the 20s, and his symphony makes abundant use of tone clusters then fashionable. He is also interested in more stringent twelve-tone technique, and dips into that idiom every now and then. The work, which won the New York Music Critics Circle Award (1947-48), is full of dissonance, but consistently strong and appealing...
...large chorus and a 56-piece orchestra (he worked on it for a year, on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation). In preparation, Menotti made two afternoon field trips to Manhattan's Mulberry Street to get the flavor of his subject. He writes with absolute conviction in an idiom that was new when Puccini was young. His strings sing with silken suavity behind tender scenes, but brasses and percussion can also rasp and grump disturbingly. Tenor David Poleri (Michele) has a tongue-lashing, show-stopping aria (". . . You are ashamed to say: 'I was Italian' "), and Soprano Gloria...