Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poppea can still hold the stage -for all of its nearly four-hour length. Last week the Banchetto Musicale and the Boston Lyric Opera joined forces on a production that was as faithful to both the spirit and the notation of Monteverdi's score as one is likely to find. The opera was the high point of the Boston Early Music Festival and Exhibition, which brought musicologists, performers and instrument makers to the city for a week-long conference on the proper performance of medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music. Abandoned now is the practice of booming Bach...
...impose external ideas on the play's words--abhorrent. I think, to ART professionals and Harvard faculty alike--or not to direct at all. Some academics might dream about that--ideal communication between playwright and audience, with no interference from pesky directors--but they're thinking of lyric poetry, not drama. The modern theater needs its directors: they should be disciplined to become the text's students, not its slaves...
...conscience pulls him elsewhere. In an eerie prefigurement of his own condition, Agee's pet magpie is one day besieged by hundreds of wild members of its species outside the window. After Agee puts his bird out to join them, it is pecked to death. But there are lyric moments in this boyhood as well: slingshot escapades, fishing trips, and cowboys-and-Indians in abandoned Nazi foxholes. But that world ends with puberty...
...greatest hero, unquestionably, is Broadway musical composer Stephen Sondheim. "He is the best living composer of musical theater," Schubert says, "He knows musically what to do with every lyric, and lyrically what to do with every bar of music." Ironically, Schubert's first Harvard-performed musical score was for the Hasty Pudding production, "A Little Knife Music," which parodied several of Sondheim's shows. Sondheim bought tickets to see the show, but was prevented by bad weather from seeing it. "At the time I was disappointed. But looking back at it, I'm very relieved," Schubert says...
...trained artists who have gone on to big-city companies, which do not hire inexperienced singers. Says Philadelphia-born Conductor Louis Salemno, 28, explaining why he joined TOT: "It's all in your head until you get a chance. They gave me a chance. At Chicago's Lyric Opera, they want Toscanini...