Word: middletons
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...originality in new American musical compositions ranges from anarchic esotericism on the left to immediately apprehensible banality on the right. Works at both extremes tend to become entertainments only remotely related to serious music. The world premiere Friday and Saturday at Kresge Auditorium of Command Performance by Robert Middleton and Harold Smith added another piece to the repertoire of the right...
...Robert Middleton, who holds a Harvard A.M. and worked under Walter Piston, has wisely scored the opera for a small, six-man orchestra. Performing and conducting himself, the composer gave the piano the burden of the music, so that the musical texture never palled from overspicing...
...Cana, in John 2:4: "'Your concern, mother, is not mine,' " and for Christ's " reply 'Are in you the Mark King 15:2, of the when Jews?' Pilate " asks, and he answers: "'The words are yours.'"* Writing in the Guardian, Middleton's Bishop Wickham concluded that "the old er text now encourages laziness of belief. The new one compels reaction just because the meanings stand proud." In the U.S., the Yale Divinity School's Dr. H. Richard Niebuhr, professor of Christian Ethics and Theology, greeted the new Bible with enthusiasm...
...SCRIBES (255 pp.)-John Middleton Murry-Horizon...
...custom-made faiths. Men of religious spirit who, for reasons of rationality or temperament, cannot accept orthodox religions tailor these orthodoxies to suit their personal needs and imaginations. One of the more popular forms of spiritual eclecticism, and the one chosen by the late British man of letters John Middleton Murry, is to deny the divinity of Christ and reject most Christian dogma, but to cling to Jesus Christ, the man, as a kind of supreme culture hero embodying every man's unending quest for his better self. At best noble in a pagan way, at worst blasphemous...