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...Cavalli's Giasone, written in 1649, was sort of a blockbuster back in the Italian seventeenth-centry. The libretto is the usual pastiche of bickering deities and hobnobbing heroes, loosely based on the story of Jason and the golden fleece. Cupid and Fate are having a quarrel about which one most controls mens' lives, and they cause amorous chaos among the mortals. Giasone, Aegeus, Medea, Hypsipyle and their servants mill about in confusion and slapstick till at last, all sung out and snugly paired off they come to a happy closing...
...splendid live recording from last year's Spoleto Festival. The cast is solid; Richard Hickox's conducting, superb. Successfully premiered on Broadway in 1950 (yes, Broadway used to take such chances), The Consul is a little masterpiece of musical stagecraft whose grimly effective score and libretto haven't lost any of their punch--or relevance--in this ghastly age of ethnic cleansing...
...poems is found in these comments. It is not actually the objects that Salter is writing about but rather perceptions of those objects. The reader is drawn in by these perceptions. Seeing through Salter's eyes, we begin to understand her connections, how her mind works. In "Libretto" images of a record player and a silk couch lead to the past, so we see what these images mean to the narrator...
...poems is found in these comments. It is not actually the objects that Salter is writing about but rather perceptions of those objects. The reader is drawn in by these perceptions. Seeing through Salter's eyes, we begin to understand her connections, how her mind works. In "Libretto" images of a record player and a silk couch lead to the past, so we see what these images mean to the narrator...
...book tour? Fret not. Monica theatrical events abound. The Starr grand jury testimony has been turned into a play, The Trials of Monica Lewinsky, most recently performed at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Texas composer Stephen Hilton's Under Oath: A Political Cantata took its libretto from the same source, and is available on CD. And you can still catch Starr Struck, at left, a musical in L.A. Susan McDougal has seen it twice...