Word: malina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Julian Beck, 60, avant-garde actor-director who with his wife Judith Malina founded and for 38 years ran the influential Living Theater, which used improvisation and superrealistic horror effects to shock audiences and express their pacifism and dissent from society, in such productions as The Connection (1959), The Brig (1963) and Frankenstein (1965); of cancer; in New York City...
WHETHER THEY ARE SINGING arias, ensembles, or recitatives along with the harpsichord, the cast does an admirable job with the material. The orchestra also does a fine job, under the direction of senior Stuart Malina. Although the violins at times seem off-key, the orchestra complements the singers well, maintaining a strong enough level without overpowering them...
Music director Stuart Malina '84 has brought to Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro a highly professional polish the tradeoff, as usual being some loss of student and House flavor. Three of the five main voices are Boston-area professional musicians; they carry the main musical burden for more than three hours. But in no sense do they overshadow the two undergraduate leads. Sebastian Knowles as Figaro and Nan Hughes as the lovesick pageboy Cherubino. Indeed these two make it obvious that casting professionals is not the only way to go. The valiant, largely student orchestra conducted by Malina...
SOMETHING AS GRAND and complicated as an opera could not be brought off without cool, efficient musical direction. Nicholas V. Palmer '79, the Lowell House music tutor, keeps the orchestra and singers together, with directorial assistance from Stuart Malina '84 and Anne Watson. Malina was on hand Friday night to keep Palmer cool under the pressure before performance. I overheard this pre-show exchange...
...Malina: I have some bad news. The string section isn't coming...