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They laughed when unknown LuLu Porter, 23, went off to the International Song Festival in Sopot, Poland. But LuLu belted out a rendition of Everything's Coming Up Roses that had the Poles vaulting for joy. The press gave her unanimous raves, and, lo and behold, the new lulu was voted the festival's most popular popular singer...
...following programs of recorded music will be played from 1 to 3 p.m. in time Bunch-Reisinger Museum: today: Berg, Chamber concerto for violin, piano, and 13 wind instruments; Suite from Lulu; Thursday: Handel, Alcina; Friday: Handel, Alcina...
...Lulu derives from the legendary folklore of the succubus, a female demon who was thought to have intercourse with sleeping men. Lulu destroys men wholesale. Early in Act I, Lulu's aging husband surprises her in the arms of an artist and would-be lover (Stanley Kolk), and dies of a heart attack. She marries the artist, but he, in turn, commits suicide when he discovers that Lulu is still in love with Schon, an abusive former lover. Schon tries to escape the Lulu hex with another woman, but Lulu later shoots him to death. And the round...
Singer of Assurance. While the first half of the opera focuses on Lulu as predator, the second half marks her for prey. Symbolically, she is destroyed by the moral cant of the bourgeois mind, which condemns in others the vices it refuses to acknowledge in itself. Lulu's actual death is horrifying; she is disemboweled by Jack the Ripper in a London garret. At this event, Berg's music erupts in an agonizing holocaust of atonal sound, the musical equivalent of the howl of the blinded Oedipus...
...from being the sordid shocker it might seem, Lulu contains some of the most lyrically tender passages in all of Berg's music. And Joan Carroll has an actress' gift for tactful understatement that keeps the sexy from becoming the squalid. As Joan Carroll says: "Lively is the word for Lulu...