Word: liebestod
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...takes testimony from 32 "witnesses"-old friends and colleagues like Henry Miller, Adela Rogers St. Johns and Rebecca West, who offer a Kane-like kaleidoscope of memories. The rest of Reds is a nonstop narrative that climaxes with skyrockets over Red Square and finds its denouement in a lovely Liebestod. The script, by Beatty and British Playwright Trevor Griffiths (with help, reportedly, from Elaine May and Robert Towne), is a series of small quick steps that deftly transport Reed from Pancho Villa's Mexico to Emma Goldman's Greenwich Village to Eugene O'Neill's Provincetown...
...Nazis. Continued Mehta: "I understand the emotions of those who have gone through concentration camps. Anyone who does not want to hear can leave the hall." Two orchestra members and a number from the audience did so. As Mehta launched into the prelude to Tristan und Isolde and the Liebestod, dissident shouting and scuffling broke out. "Hitler go home!" shouted one anti-Wagnerian. Said Mehta: "We have spoken about this a great deal and we waited for a suitable atmosphere...
...finds out and gently reminds his wife that their marriage is built upon loyalty. In perhaps the sudsiest scene, Lady Marjorie gives up her young man, the Roddy Llewellyn of 1906. "I have loved you as I never have a man and never will again," she says, as the Liebestod wells up in the background...
...wafting prose style. Phrases like "an awesome move toward humanness" and such gauzy generalizations as Communists "were like everybody else, only more so" swell throughout her pages. Yet the book does have a vital core. Gornick, an essayist for New York's Village Voice, stages her psychopolitical Liebestod with a living chorus of former Communist activists whom she interviewed in various parts...
...meat and no-down concerti for his swan song. Offering several Brahms lieder as an hors d'oeuvre, Moshell at the piano will accompany soprano Tamara Mitchel '78 who might justifiably view these as warm-up exercises; she will then dive into Wagner's incredibly challenging Prelude and Liebestod from the opera Tristan and Isolde...