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Mitchell was contemplating a life in the diplomatic corps when she was dragooned into a workshop production of Isaac Van Grove's The Story of Ruth, the first opera the freshman had ever seen. By the end of her senior year, she had sung in twelve student productions and had won some 35 vocal contests. Shortly after graduation, she took first place in the prestigious Merola Opera Program competition in San Francisco...
Only her hairdresser knew the zeal with which Barbra Streisand, 40, had committed herself to her new film, Yentl. The independent-woman- vs.-repressive-society yarn is based on a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, 78. When the actress read the tale, "It became a passion, along with the conviction that I was the person best able to communicate the story to audiences." Streisand took her mission seriously. The screenwriter? Why not get the best? How about Barbra Streisand? Director? How does Barbra Streisand sound? Producer? Well, there's always Barbra Streisand. And finally, what about someone...
...quotes from Romeo and Juliet with a lisp ("What wov can do, that dares wov attempt"). The fact that only Cohn and Mary Madelyn have sex, producing a baby, causes the beasts to go amuck. In a lunatic re-enactment of both Abraham's intended sacrifice of Isaac and of the Crucifixion, Cohn is killed by the apes. In a final tableau, the gorilla dons a yarmulke and "in his throaty, gruff voice" recites the Kaddish...
Rochberg has since refined his neo-tonal style in such works as the String Quartets Nos. 4, 5 and 6, known collectively as the "Concord" Quartets after the ensemble for which they were written, and the Violin Concerto, premiered by Isaac Stern. But his most ambitious rapprochement with the past has come not in instrumental music but in opera. The Confidence Man, with a libretto by Gene Rochberg based on Herman Melville's bleak, cynical novel, is currently on display at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico...
Stavros' father Isaac, who was also to have made the trip to New York, died in Turkey as the clan was about to embark. This leaves the eldest son in the uneasy role of head of a reunited family that broods and sulks and squabbles even as it breathes the ennobling air of tenement America. His balky siblings gravely crimp this Broadway Joe's ambitions, sexual, social and financial. Has he not promised his father to keep the family together? Does he not search endlessly to find husbands for the dark-skinned sisters? Where, then, is his free...