Word: jose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After Jose Luis Sert had designated one of his most brilliant student's. John Andres, to head the new Gund Hall design team, the design team decided that all the GSD's fragmented departments and their respective studio work areas should be united under one roof without division. The result of that much-debated vision of 5-tiered studio space covered by a 2001 freespanning roof...
...gift of fresh spring rain after the long winter of interpretative obfuscation that, in one opera house after another (including the Met), has virtually turned the work into a gypsy folk opera. This Carmen does not carry a rose in her teeth; she would bite it off. Don Jose is no innocent victim of Carmen's wiles; to her obvious fascination, he is a brute with enough temper to kill. With the hauntingly Iberian sets by Czech Designer Josef Svoboda, one can believe that Seville is steaming hot (it literally is: 280,000 watts of light beam down...
...well as in the sketches for the sets and lighting that Svoboda had worked up for him last winter. The rest lay mostly in the minds of the people he had talked to about the production. His widow Marit also contributed valuable detail (since Gentele had not wanted Jose or Carmen to be pitied, she suggested that Jose should not kneel or sob over Carmen's body). It then fell to Stage Director Bodo Igesz, recruited from the Met staff, and Conductor Leonard Bernstein to put the various pieces together...
...proves, to the surprise of many, that she can act -not as well as she can sing, but well enough. As Carmen, her face is a catty catalogue of all the baser emotions. Her hands are a dithyrambic dialogue, as when she plays the castanets with her arms around Jose's neck (a genuine feat, considering the size of Tenor James McCracken). Horne may not so much dance as insinuate dance, and may need a gallant helping hand in order to hop on a chair at the end of her Gypsy Song, but she nonetheless succeeds in making Carmen...
...Hunter finds it curious that The Revolt of the Masses, by the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, has been so long neglected. If our "Progressivists" were to read it, they would find that they are not progressive at all. They are, in fact, "old hat." America is just now experiencing what Spain saw in 1930 and what Russia saw in 1905! Mrs. John R. Fawcett...