Word: manns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...create a Commentary on Our Times. In case you don't find the lyrics or the singers' pained contortions sufficiently eloquent, Young hammers home his messages with grandiose allegorical scenes. The product displays the artistic force of a Fritz Pearls poster and the musical imagination of the Johnny Mann singers...
...setting for most of the new installment is Venice-Thomas Mann's Venice as well as, say, Casanova's-where Jenkins and the other major characters have assembled for an international conference. For the moment they are living like kings in sinking palazzi, but Jenkins reflects that they are only temporary kings like those in The Golden Bough: marked, after their brief ascendancy, for death. By the end of the book that death proves to be literal for several; for others, it takes the symbolic form of loss of virility, humiliation or merely a return to everyday life...
...Twyman, what began as a casual case of good Samaritanism and team spirit turned into a cause and an obsession. Writer Douglas Morrow and Director Daniel Mann do not explore the complexities or growth of either character. They play their story strictly and obviously for tears and inspiration...
Newport-New England. Friday: War, Ray Charles, Herbie Mann, the Staple Singers, and Billy Paul. Saturday: Donny Hathaway, B.B. King, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Stevie Wonder. At Fenway Park, July 27 and 28. Tickets...
...Covent Garden this fall, and a year later to New York's Metropolitan Opera. Although such an intimate drama could well be lost in those huge houses, it is clear that the ailing master of English opera has fused moral theme with artistic creation into what Thomas Mann himself might have hailed as Britten's Gesamtkunstwerk. *Lawrence Malkin