Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this Dream at the Loeb goes far beyond technical proficiency or dramatic virtuosity. The play demands total ensemble work not just for the sake of the number of major roles it contains but for the revelation of its multiple meanings, and the American Repertory Theater (ART) provides a group of performers with vocal skill, physical agility, and intellectual acumen. They present in transcendent clarity--sometimes in neon signs--the question at the heart of Shakespeare's play: how to create marital tranquility out of the irrational workings of love. Most of the refinements and elaborations director Alvin Epstein introduces serve...
...applies at least as much to the new-born theater company as to the three couples onstage. The music, with its rich ornamentation, dark coloring and sprightly rhythms, captures just the same many-hued atmosphere as Epstein's staging. Unfortunately, it also introduces the only significant flaws in the Loeb production. The lyrics to Purcell's arias and choruses are often poetically inferior ot Shakespeare's verse, and sound rude, out of place. The stiff movements of singers from the Banchetto Musicale onto the stage--apparently to serve as a sort of Greek chorus as well as a musical...
...Faculty's action was the last in a series of bureaucratic stumbling blocks the proposal has overcome since Robert S. Brustein, director of the Loeb and the American Repertory Theater (ART), first submitted it to the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) last year...
...plowing through chilled New Hampshire crowds?an odd contrast for a campaign in which Reagan's age was supposed to be a major handicap. Heavy stress was placed on the brutal daily pummeling Bush took in the Manchester Union Leader, New Hampshire's only statewide paper?though Publisher William Loeb has berated other candidates in other primaries with limited consequences...
...Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, says there are relatively few substantive restrictions within the Ivy League which are binding on all schools. "We elicit information and opinions from the orchestra, the band and the Loeb," Jewett says, adding that coaches are "most eager" to give information...