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...most people, says Poet Peter Viereck, modern poetry is a hopelessly obscure "snore and an allusion." Viereck (rhymes with lyric) is out to change that; he writes for the "intelligent general reader who has been scared away from poetry but who might return if addressed straightforwardly...
...last-act murder scene, it was overwhelming. Carmen was the same story; with the pace he gave Bizet's fast-moving tragedy, it seemed to move swiftly without being rushed. By last week Perlea had cemented his reputation as an operatic triple threat by conducting a superbly lyric Traviata...
When shaggy-haired William Alexander Bustamante tours the Jamaican countryside, field hands from the cane and banana plantations crowd around him singing a native song called We Will Follow-Bustamante Till We Die. Last week it was clear that the chorused pledge was something more than a catchy calypso lyric. In the British island's general election, Bustamante and his Labor Party squeezed back into power for a second five-year term. It was Bustamante's faithful plantation workers, overpowering the heavy urban vote rolled up by the rival socialist People's National Party, who saved...
...Warehouse. Two nights later, Met-goers saw the first performance in 19 years of Puccini's Manon Lescaut. In front of new sets that were hardly more imaginative than any of the Met's old ones, great Lyric Tenor Jussi Bjoerling and Soprano Dorothy Kirsten sang like opera stars, but acted in the old arm-flailing tradition that has long been the curse of the opera stage. The first matinee was a revival, after nine years in the warehouse, of Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah. As a vehicle for Dramatic Tenor Ramon Vinay, the strong...
There are also two poems. One, fashionably devoted to the theme of postwar disillusionment, is called "Faust 1945" and reiterates the tired soldier's discovery that there's no solace for the sterile soul in drink, dames, or solace for the other, a sort of love lyric by the Advocate's new President, is called "Song," and succinctly continues the tradition of conventional obscurity which has become, one is tempted to say, a hallmark of the magazine. This particular poem is written in three four-line stanzas and makes no pretense of intellectual content. Instead, it tries to convey...