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...Librettist W. S. Gilbert once trapped the editor of Punch with a bland question: Were many jokes sent in? "Hundreds." said the editor. "Then," snapped Gilbert, "why don't you print some of them?" Like some Englishmen, Americans have long looked on Punch's quiet brand of British fun with blank amazement. But since the war, Punch has been trying to broaden its audience (TIME, June 2, 1947). Now, to prove that even U.S. readers can laugh at today's Punch (circ. 136,537), its editors have authorized a collection of The Best Cartoons from Punch (Simon...
...Leonard Bernstein is the most versatile professional music maker in the U.S.; wrapped up in his ingratiating person are a conductor, pianist, composer, librettist, lecturer and festivalist. A year ago it crossed his mind, not for the first time, that he was too versatile for his own good; he announced that he would retire from public life to catch up on his composing. Last week, at Brandeis University's first Festival of the Creative Arts in Waltham, Mass., Lennie Bernstein husked the fruit of his year's work, a "little opera" called Trouble in Tahiti...
Died. Robert B. Smith, 76, leading librettist of the operetta era,† who collaborated with Composers Victor Herbert...
...Librettist Alex had a good story and told it well. And Composer David had the taste not to try to drown out the drama onstage with too much brass from the pit. His score, dramatic and often lyrical, was not always distinguished. But together, action and music moved on to the climax with the inevitability of a conveyor belt...
...Medium (Walter Lowendahl) is the most skillful and imaginative effort so far to bridge the gap between movies and opera, but it still leaves the gap wide open. Shooting in Rome to gain atmosphere and save money, Composer-Librettist Gian-Carlo Menotti has preserved the musical values of his successful short opera while turning it into a curious mixture of sometimes effective, sometimes static cinema sequences...