Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with his police interrogators and "confessed" that he had killed his mother. Though he later recanted, a jury believed the prosecution and convicted him of manslaughter. But almost no one who knew the quiet, timid youth felt that he was guilty. Friends and neighbors organized a defense committee. Writer Joan Barthel, who lived near by, became convinced of his innocence, told his story in New Times magazine and eventually wrote a book about the case. Money and help came from others with homes in Connecticut, including Novelist William Styron, Director Mike Nichols and Playwright Arthur Miller, who argued that Reilly...
...syllables like do, re, mi that are bleached of definition. Feeling but not meaning is conveyed by Gertrude Steinian repetition. So mesmeric are the proceedings that it is startling when the curtain finally drops. In Einstein on the Beach, Wilson has created more of a dream than an opera. Joan Downs...
Annual Ritual. Some Americans have given up sending Christmas cards. Chicago Real Estate Broker Joan Armstrong stopped sending cards after she got divorced. "I felt I had to explain and didn't know what to say," says she. But many Americans still make a project of the annual ritual. One of my colleagues and his wife buy their cards right after Christmas for the following season; it saves money. They send nonsectarian UNICEF cards to friends who are Jewish but not devout, Hannukah cards to Jewish friends who are devout, religious designs to fellow Christians and letters of varying...
...trend in vehicles for the box office sopranos may well be little-known French operas. Along with one fragile masterpiece, Manon, Jules Massenet wrote several operas that fit this description. After 87 years, one of them, Esclarmonde, has just made its Metropolitan Opera debut as a vehicle for Joan Sutherland. The title character is a Byzantine Empress with magical powers, and after hearing the music, one can only wish that she had used her sorcery to summon up a different show-Rigoletto, maybe...
Bins of Beads. The revival of Esclarmonde is the idea of Richard Bonynge. Over the years he has earned grudging respect from critics for his workmanlike conducting, but his real talent is in finding music that will show in some new way his wife Joan Sutherland's extraordinary voice. There are few coloratura fireworks in Esclmonde. One hears instead her middle-high range - lustrous, dusky, moving seamlessly between registers. No other singer could bring this music so close to distinction. Among the other principals, Mezzo Huguette Tourangeau, as the Empress' sister, sang with impeccable French style. The sets...