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...poem after poem. It grew from his short life's continual conflict between delight in the rich, romantic dream worlds that he was so skilled at creating, and the pull of complex humanity, which he saw but understood art could never fully trap. In his most famous Ode (to a Nightingale), the voice of the bird has touched the hearts of many men and united them in awareness of their common humanity; but it also has lured them into the perilous desolation of an imaginary world where no human face or voice is seen or heard...
...treats the familiar questions of Keats scholarship--his medical history, his finances, the effect of the Endymion reviews--with an informed common sense that never collapses into pedantry. Even his analyses of the poetry, although rigorously technical, provoke the most inattentive reader to a new understanding of the great Odes (particularly the "Ode to a Nightingale") and the epic fragments...
Clement Janequin's Four Chansons, which greeted the overflow audience after intermission, more than compensated for the Chamber Singers' early misfortunes, however. They were a quartet of jewels that would have enhanced any royal collection. Especially memorable was La Plus Bells de la Ville, a flirtatious ode to the prettiest girl in town. La Chante des Oyseaulx (Song of the Birds), a fantasy that includes imitations of bird sounds, was superb, shimmering with brilliant clusters of sound. Toutes les Nuictz was a translucent ruby, a deep and haunting love song. The Camerata Players also redeemed themselves in the Janequin with...
...Millionairess, Shaw's ode to free enterprise, stars Carol (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Channing as the robber baroness. Westport, Conn.; Mineola, N.Y. (two weeks); Millburn, N.J. (two weeks...
...morning closed with a reading of the Class Ode by David S. Cole. Bentley H. Layton led the audience in singing the Ode...