Word: oedipus
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Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex is a remarkable piece of dramatic music. Its text is a Latin version of a French translation of the Greek tragedy. Stravinsky's music, sometimes wildly discordant, sometimes quietly lyrical, provides a straightforward yet imaginative setting of the theme. The dissonances all mean something--they usually occur at especially dramatic moments (as when Oedipus first realizes that he has killed his father and married his mother) and the result is terrifying. Wesley Addy, beautifully narrating in English, made each section comprehensible; the Orchestra and Harvard Glee Club sounded positively fierce. As for the soloists, only Paul...
...Glee Club will also sing Stravin-sky's Oedipus Rex, accompanied by the orchestra. Soloists in this performance will be Oscar M. Henry 2G, and Paul Tibbetts...
...Gardner portrays the epitome of seductresses with the slight imperfection of a North Chicago accent. James Mason tends to play Oedipus into the role of the Dutchman, but these two minor defects are more than atoned for by the alluring, but not lurid color, the exotic setting, and the originality of the cameraman. The Basques are genuine and speak real Basque. The Spaniards are real, too. Only the plot is unbelievable--after the screen goes white and the lights...
...Wallace Woodworth '24, Professor of Music, will be the Boston Symphony Orchestra's guest conductor at concerts to be given March 21 and 22. The program will feature the Boston premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "Oedipus...
...stunt, it boasts in the Oliviers so much added aura, that the superlatives can't help spilling over into what should be more temperate zones. The productions have their admirable virtues; the stars have their expected lure. But this is no such event as was Olivier's Oedipus Rex on his last visit to Broadway. And far from blotting out a recent Caesar on Broadway (with Cedric Hardwicke and Lilli Palmer) or a recent Antony (with Godfrey Tearle and Katharine Cornell), the present productions will be constantly-and not always favorably -compared to the earlier ones. What...