Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SNOW WHITE, by Donald Barthelme. The old fairy tale gets a dizzy and often funny retelling in an oddball and very contemporary idiom. As Snow White puts it: "Oh, I wish there were some words in the world that were not the words I always hear." She gets her wish...
...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...
...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...