Word: madrigale
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"Chalk Garden" is the story of a struggle between life and sterility which is carried on at two levels. On one level the struggle is between the 70-year-old Mrs. St. Maugham and the woman she hires as a companion for her sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Laurel. On the...
The symbolism of "Chalk Garden" depends on the fact that for most of the play the two quarrels are equivalent. Madrigal and Pinkbell dispute for control of Mrs. St. Maugham's chalk garden. Pinkbell has always had control over it, and when Madrigal arrives she completely inverts all of Pinkbell...
Bang, Bang, Bang. Tammy Grimes-because of her disheveled appearance sometimes known as Grimy Tams-insists that "nightclub singing is the hardest thing in the world to do." She makes it sound like the easiest, as she concocts a wistful chant out of Oscar Levant's Blame It on...
Belt of the Muse. In moments of introspection Musician Engel thinks of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. "That genius," he says, "wrote to order. He had no time for the muse to belt him." If the muse has failed to lay a glove on Engel, it is chiefly because he moves too...
The program comprises music for both full chorus and madrigal groups including Randall Thompson's "Fanfare for Chorus" especially commissioned by Schmidt for the Chorus. Other pieces are excerpts from Purcell's "Come Ye Sons of Art Away," Brahms' "Tafellied," Palestrina's "Surgere Amica Mea," Mozart's Cantata K. 108...