Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...halls with hastily convoked orchestras, and I suppose the answer lies in the greatness of the works themselves. But next time perhaps a different approach to undergraduate opera is in order. Some enterprising director ought to yoke together several of the valuable resources available here to amateurs, like the Loeb mainstage and one of the two organized undergraduate orchestras, and have a go at producing an opera with forces suitable to the task...
...dramatic works that just don't suit its vastness; the Bach Society or the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra would, I hope, jump at the chance to perform challenging dramatic music; and singers and directors could only thrive with such collaborators. The American Repertory Theater has already made use of the Loeb for operatic works, and plans to do more. There's no reason why undergraduates shouldn't follow suit...
...most natural clowns. No one in The Three Cuckolds betrays any flair for knockabout comedy, so it's hard to understand why the director. Michael S. E. Kaplan, chose to haul out this tedious commedia del l'arte piece and stage it, of all places, on the Loeb Mainstage, which swallows up all but the most stylistically assured productions...
...part of the set, throwing out lines like. "Anybody I know out there?" and "Small house tonight," they establish a quick and funny rapport with the audience. Then the "ad-libs" cease and the show sobers up. Great--sober commedia del l'arte by inexperienced actors on the Loeb Mainstage. With the orchestra pit unaccountably retained for a handful of musicians, it feels like watching a play from the opposite side of a lake...
...Afghanistan and Morocco, to Saudi Arabia; Robert Nesen, 63, a California Cadillac dealer who owns a ranch next to Reagan's, to Australia; Paul Nitze, 74, former disarmament negotiator in the Nixon Administration, to West Germany; Theodore E. Cummings, 72, former supermarket-chain owner, to Austria; John L. Loeb Jr., 51, New York investment banker and major Republican contributor, to Denmark; Maxwell Rabb, 70, a presidential assistant to Dwight Eisenhower, to Italy...