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Fire Under Her Skin definitively proves that the "realism" of De Sica, Fellini, and others has become a stock formula and has lost the wonderful freshness that it once seemed to possess. All the inevitable ingredients are here, the triangle--or is it a pentagon--of passions, the sensitive man...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Fire Under Her Skin | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

The Louisville Orchestra's brave project for commissioning contemporary music, backed by a $500,000 Rockefeller grant, is in trouble. Its quota - 40-odd new works played and recorded every year-has faded to a mere seven this season. Reason: only 1,021 of the planned 6,000 record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trouble for Moderns | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Anouilh, however, did not have to rely on tricks to keep his comedy alive, because the story, which wanders somewhere between farce and fantasy, is very amusing in its own right. The play relates the adventures of three its own right. The play relates the adventures of three thieves who...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Thieves' Carnival | 3/6/1956 | See Source »

When a composition by Roger Sessions is played, it is a major event. Reason: his music is so imposing and complex that few orchestras dare to try it. But this season. Composer Sessions, 59, unveils four major new works in a row: 1) a cantata; 2) a Mass, to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Masterpiece in Louisville? | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

The text is the second Idyll, one of literature's great love poems, by 3rd century B.C. Greek Poet Theocritus. The piece divides into four moods, as the forsaken girl Simaitha gathers magic spells, then tells the moon goddess how she met her lover, goes on to tell how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Masterpiece in Louisville? | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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