Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week at the University of Chicago, Schönberg tried to explain, among other things, what his music was up to. Sample: "I always attempted to produce something quite conventional, but I failed and it always, against my will, became something unusual. How right, then, is a music lover who refuses to appreciate music which even the composer did not want to write...
...spectator forget that nose. Declaiming with high spirit, he leaves the audience gasping at the arched flight of his slick patter. He is meant to be a swashbuckler, and Ferrer gives it everything as he swaggers and gesticulates in the mixed role of philosopher, poet, soldier, and self-sacrificing lover, He is at his best as the hyper-sensitive ugly man. Ferrer's nuances of expression in his reaction to the slurs on his nose are especially precise. He moves with verve and fills in the speeches with grimaces and sounds of high comic value...
...balance between pomposity and farce. At rare moments in the comic scenes there is an overstraining after effect, but this can be blamed on the script. It is when Rostand tries to be another Shakespeare or Racine that the play loses its dash. The death of Christian, the puppet lover, and the end of Cyrano himself in a nunnery are on the edge of ennui. Written at a time when audiences liked their melodrama lush and their tears wet, these heroics leave the modern theatre-goer cold...
...Soler added that, according to his research, Goya probably had never been the Duchess' lover. Reason: her Grace was cold, narcissistic-not stormy Goya's type. The tale had just been dreamed up by writers, probably French...
Weird is the word. The Smoky Mountain legend of Barbara Allen and her witch-boy lover in itself is strange and eerie. Made into a "legend with music" by Howard Richardson and William Berney, strikingly performed, and skillfully produced, the tale becomes an unusually dramatic theatrical experience...