Word: kupferman
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...This World (Theodore R. Kupferman) is compiled from Technicolor footage shot by Lowell Thomas Sr. and Jr. on the much-publicized trip the commentator and his son took to Tibet in 1949. It is a cinematic counterpart of the long evening with a photograph album. The pictures are often amateurishly taken, the continuity is rakishly discontinuous, and the narration is written and read like a fifth-grade paper on How I Spent My Summer Vacation...
...efforts by the Academy of the Left. The leavening in their dull, predictable company was provided by a few comparatively young and little-known painters with a sense of self. Honolulu's Ben Norris translated mountains into a jagged, energetic shorthand that almost soared. Boston's Lawrence Kupferman reduced a tide-pool to a rich swirling pattern that looked like yellow marble...
Sextet won him a "neat and charming" notice from Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson. Last week an After Dinner Opera Company audience in Manhattan heard 23-year-old Composer Kupferman teamed up with a late impressionist of the literary world-Gertrude Stein...
...result was a one-act opera as stylish, Steinish, charming and listenable as any summer audience could want to hear. Composer Kupferman had picked Author Stein's In a Garden (from The First Reader & Three Plays) for the libretto of his first opera. The story was sweet and simple-and so was the artfully naive music that went with it. A little girl (pertly played and sung by pretty 21-year-old Soprano Sylvia Stahlman) plays she is a queen...
...many a listener was concerned, budding Composer Kupferman, a man with a freshening sense of melody, could climb right up near Composer-Critic Thomson (Four Saints in Three Acts, The Mother of Us All) when it came to setting Stein to song...