Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Assorted money-grubbing cavils aside, though, this production of Guys and Dolls has consistent quality. It can be argued, of course, that it is virtually impossible to mess up this play, blessed as it is with a tremendous score, a witty script that only now begins to show signs of...
Although Guys and Dolls, when done right, features a cast filled with amiable sidekicks, the leads must carry the show, for they have the bulk of the dialogue, not to mention the songs. In this production, happily, one of the four leads is flawless and the other three are perfectly...
The only major problem with this Guys and Dolls stems from the extreme physical limitations of Leverett's Old Library. This is quite definitely a big-stage musical, and the overly cozy location really hurts. Given those limitations, and some unforseen technical problems, the crew did the best it could...
Beyond the fire-eater, the buskers and the tent circus on the cobblestone plaza of Paris' skeletal-modern Pompidou arts center, there is what looks like a subway entrance marked IRCAM. It leads down, four levels below, to the world's newest, most sophisticated center for musical experiment...
Boulez is a formidable force in modern music as composer, conductor and theorist. After two decades spent largely in Germany and the U.S., he has returned to France as virtually sole programmer of his country's musical future. Says Composer Karl Heinz Stockhausen: "IRCAM is the only place in...