Word: meyerhold
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...offers an unexampled picture of some 55 years of Soviet musical life. His tender and witty evocation of his teacher Alexander Glazunov constitutes one of the most affecting portraits of a composer in the literature of music. Shostakovich muses over the fates of his close friends, the director Vsevolod Meyerhold, the Red Army Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and others more obscure: composers, an organist, a musicologist. All died in the Gulag. "When I started going over the life stories of my friends and acquaintances," he told Volkov, "all I saw was corpses, mountains of corpses...
...dynamic. Situation comedies and things like that don't interest me at all. And the whole naturalistic or realistic theater doesn't interest me very much. I don't think theater should ever be realistic. I just think that the power the theater has is in the unreal. Brecht, Meyerhold, Artaud--you can make a list as long as your arm of the people I think served the stage in the right fashion. And that's what musicals ought...
...think theatre should ever be realistic. I just think that the power the theatre has is in the unreal. Brecht, Meyerhold, Artaud-you can make a list as long as your arm of the people I think served the stage in the right fashion. And that's what musicals ought...
...late George Pierce Baker at his Harvard dramatic workshop. In 1926 she was the first woman to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, on which she studied the theatre in twelve European countries and wrote Shifting Scenes of the Modern European Theater. Her admiration for the early Soviet theatre of Meyerhold and others stood her in bad stead when she faced the brand of dramatic criticism offered by Representative Starnes and Senator Reynolds...
...years Graf has won a doctorate from Vienna University for his thesis Richard Wagner as Stage Director, staged more than 50 operas including Modernist George Antheil's Transatlantic. Known for his direct, challenging technique which he learned from the cinema and the Russians Stanislavsky, Tairoff and Meyerhold, he won fame by staging the most energetic Falstaff Philadelphia ever saw, increased his reputation when he mounted Mozart's Escape from the Seraglio and Gluck's Alceste in Florence's Boboli Garden last year. Hardly had he stepped off the boat in Manhattan last month when...