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...heroine, Lydia Crutwell (Julie Harris), is dying of an incurable polysyllabic disease. She is keeping this secret from her husband Sebastian (Rex Harrison), since he is a pitiably self-absorbed book critic. She feels that he could not remotely cope with anything as real as life-or death. That...
Good use of the new Boesendorfer piano this weekend. We have a chance to hear Hugh Wolff, pianist, composer, and new conductor of the Bach Society, play Schumann and Brahms on Saturday. The following evening, Lydia Artymiw will perform in an interesting program consiting of popular Romantic composers...
...Lydia Artymiw, piano, plays Beethoven Sonata, Op. 27 #1, Schumann Fantasiestucke, Schubert Sonata, Op. 42, Chopin. Free. Sunday...
...Juliet was played by a young boy, Mary Saunderson in 1662 being the first woman to assume the part. But in the 19th century the original practice was stood on its head, and there was quite a vogue of giving the role of Romeo to such women as Lydia Kelly, Priscilla Horton, Ellen Tree, Mrs. H.B. Conway, and Charlotte Cushman (playing opposite her sister's Juliet until she herself switched to the female part). One year George Rignold was advertised to give a performance of Romeo with seven different Juliets, but the promise fell one short when an actress defected...
...their first entrance many of the characters in The Rivals are interesting, but Sheridan just cannot sustain that interest for two hours. He tried by adding a secondary romance between Faulkland (Andrew Brooks) and Lydia's cousin, Julia (Maeve Kinkead). Brooks is especially good in his portrayal of the contrite and contrary Faulkland, running first hot, then tepid, then cold, then hot again...