Word: jocasta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music reviewer discussing a new ballet must limit his comments mainly to its musical aspect. The subject of "Night Journey" is the Jocasta of the Oedipus legend foreseeing her destiny. It is a theme of dark and unrelieved tragedy, and its prevalent emotional atmosphere is reproduced with general conviction on Mr. Schuman's score. The score is expertly wrought in the treatment of its musical ideas, and in the atmospheric contribution of its scoring and instrumental hues. It gives a sense of portentousness, while it seemed at times rather less revealing of the full scope of the emotions...
Slowly, inexorably, the evidence as it piles up points to Oedipus himself-to Oedipus who, foredoomed to commit atrocious crimes, has despite all precautions unknowingly murdered his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta. When the last nail of proof is driven solidly home, Oedipus, in an agony of guilt and horror, blinds himself and goes forth, a beggar, to roam the world...
...Theban king will be portrayed by Henry P. Robbins '48, and playing opposite him in the role of Jocasta will be Anna Prince, seen previously this year before Idler footlights in "The Importance of Being Earnest...