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...write-up in next year's catalog states, "the course will progress from an investigation of pure drama to an investigation of the uses of drama in lyric poetry, opera, the novel, the motion picture, and television...
Juno (book by Joseph Stein, music and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein, dances by Agnes de Mille) is a Pyrrhic victory of Broadway talent over an Irish genius. This musical version of Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock paradoxically mutes O'Casey's inner music with song, fetters his soaring spirit with dance, and deflects the lyric flow of his dialogue into prosy pools of talk...
...horn-rimmed glasses and a grey-flecked crew-cut walks up to the bar and acts like the squarest square from Endsville. He orders milk. But from the Red Garter to the Purple Onion, not an eyebrow lifts. Everyone knows that on matters that count-a beat and a lyric-Columnist Ralph Gleason. 42, has a taste so cool that he turns out much of the solid reporting and comment on the convoluted world of jazz...
Rattler & Friends. What Belafonte sings is not strictly folk music. He takes folk songs as starters and collaborates with Conductor-Composer Robert Corman, lyric writers and arrangers to make the special regional words and symbols of the songs meaningful to a wide audience. It is an audience he has virtually created for himself, because folk music has never before had mass appeal in the U.S. To protesting purists, Belafonte replies: "All folk songs are interpretations. Otherwise you might as well go back to the first time and say 'ugh.'" He takes a tape recorder with him wherever...
...play The Human Voice (1930) returned last week in a fine musical version by French Composer Francis (Dialogues of the Carmelites) Poulenc. Staged in Milan's La Piccola Scala, with shimmering Soprano Denise Duval as the distraught mistress, Poulenc's opera lifted the play again to the lyric tragedy that Cocteau intended: "The worst tragedy that can happen to us all-love and abandon...