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...audience into two camps-the admiring and the appalled-with the critics generally on his side. He has a talent for finding high inspiration in avant-garde literature (Allen Ginsberg's Howl inspired his recent Antifone per Orchestra) and for attracting notable collaborators. W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman (the librettists of Stravinsky's Rake's Progress) wrote the libretto for his Elegy for Young Lovers, and the collaboration remains among his happiest experiences. "Auden said that a libretto should be a love letter to the composer," he recalls. "I found that very touching to hear...
...some evidence of this, and the recent Boston City Hall competition proves the point even more sharply. That building looks like a Mayan temple." The winner (out of 256 entries) in the Boston competition is as exotically daring as anything Boston has ever seen. Designed by Gerhard Kallman, Noel Mc-Kinnell and Edward F. Knowles, all of Columbia University, it combines traditional Boston brick with reinforced concrete, but the most striking thing about it is its use of ancient secrets to produce modern magic. It does indeed look something like a temple, neatly set within a plaza and punctuated...
...work by the controversial Wunderkind of modern opera, German-born Hans Werner Henze, 34, whose cherubic face and businesslike manner disguise a talent for brazen dissonance, eerie melody and phantasmagorical plots. For good measure, the libretto was by British Poet W. H. Auden and the U.S.'s Chester Kallman, their first since they teamed with Stravinsky on The Rake's Progress a decade...
...Opera Company's TV version last week stood out as a high point of the opera season. Usually, English translations of opera have the incongruous effect of a grey flannel suit at a fancy dress ball, but this time Poet W. H. Auden and Collaborator Chester Kallman managed to provide language that was not ridiculed by the music or drowned by it; the TV microphone clearly picked out the words that, in an opera house, usually fail to cross the orchestra pit. As a result, with the exception of a few close calls on bathos, NBC's gingery...
...Opera Company (2-4:30 p.m.). Mozart's masterpiece, Don Giovanni, with an English libretto by Poets W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, with Cesare Siepi, Leontyne Price, Helen George and Judith Radkin. Color...