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...legend of Orpheus, the poet who charmed all nature with his lyre, and his descent into Hades in search of his lost Eurydice, has captivated artists and writers since antiquity. Film Maker Marcel Camus (Black Orpheus) and Playwright Tennessee Williams (Orpheus Descending) have put the legend into modern dress. But no contemporary artist has found the myth so richly allusive and central to his art as Sculptor Varujan Boghosian...
Play World. "Myth is real to me," Boghosian says. There were moments when it was almost too real as he began to see related shapes and symbols everywhere. He saw it in a farm harrow, the understructure of a funeral wreath that was shaped like a lyre, in dozens of tiny toy buglers he found in a flea market. At one point, after other children gibed at his young daughter about her father's playing with toys, Boghosian sat down and reflected on his purpose. "The play world becomes for the artist a real world," he concluded, "while...
...last summer, including illness and a marital crisis, along with the marginal notes on his manuscript ("Oh God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"), suggest that the music is programmatic in the most personal way. It is a melody-drenched, emotional and yet finally serene farewell to life, love and lyre. Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra give the work a smooth and haunting performance...
...forearm "tone cluster" piano technique in the '20s and '30s and, declaring that modern composers "can't beat Beethoven at his own game," went on to pursue his vigorous ideas in more than 1,000 pieces, which he scored for everything from Pyrex bowls to lyre-like Japanese kotos; of uremia; in Shady...
There's some other poetry too. Marianne Moore's "In Lieu of the Lyre" is a parody of Cambridge pedantry, I think. Doris Fendel ponders the elusive essence of a marriage partnership in "Prothalamium," without encouraging results...