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...abetted by Jeff Bleckner's stolidly reverential direction, there is little room for such diversionary tactics as entertainment or such revisionist behavior as love and the spontaneous response of one human being to another. Only one actor seems to escape the arid dogmatism of the evening-Marcia Jean Kurtz as Clytemnestra the mother. When she pleads for her daughter's life, she reveals a tenacity and a tenderness that banish all curses and shame all crimes...
Died. Elaine Shaffer, 47, leading lady of flutists; of cancer of the lungs; in London. Shaffer first performed with the Kansas City Philharmonic whose conductor, Efrem Kurtz, she later married. With a playing style distinguished by flawless technique and warm, full-bodied tones, she became one of the world's most widely acclaimed solo instrumentalists...
...taught herself to play. Upon graduation, having become a Kincaid admirer through recordings, she auditioned for him, and was promptly enrolled as his pupil at the Curtis Institute of Music. Four years later she landed her first job: second flutist with the Kansas City Philharmonic. The conductor, Efrem Kurtz, not only took her with him as first flutist in 1948 when he began the reorganization of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, but in 1955 he also married...
...those days, a solo career for a flutist was a virtual impossibility in the U.S. Most of the leading players were working in orchestras, giving recitals on the side. Shaffer had had enough of the orchestral life. She and Kurtz moved their base of operations to Europe, where despite Aristotle's warning ("The flute is not an instrument which has a good moral effect; it is too exciting"), the flute has remained in high standing. There she established herself among the concert world's handful of top-rank women instrumentalists...
...well assisted by Kendell March, who plays the convulsive, and by Mareia Jean Kurtz, the daughter who devotes most of her attention to caring for her "atomic flowers." (Miss Kurtz, however, has a tendency to play too many of her emotional cards too early; a little more passivity in the first act would pay larger dividends in the second.) There is also Ethel Woodruff in the potentially unrewarding part of the decrepit boarder. Miss Woodruff looks not unlike a pet rabbit who is murdered during the course of the drama; her pink eyes stare painfully ahead as if death were...