Word: one-act
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...drama of contemporary racial strife. The setting is a ghetto grocery store in pre-riot Newark. The characters refer to black people as "blacks" and white people as "honkies." Still, I have my doubts as to whether Hoye actually knows any more about the ghetto than Spiro Agnew. His one-act play is not about black power or slum despair or even law and order as much as he would like us to believe it is. Rather, it is the story of a simple white bigot whose son rejects him and then sets out to destroy...
...FESTIVAL. Béla Bartók's one-act opera Bluebeard's Castle sung by Soprano Ana Raquel-Satre and Baritone Norman Foster with the Zagreb Philharmonica...
BATH FESTIVAL (June 19-29), 106 miles west of London, is guided by Yehudi Menuhin through a chamber and symphonic series that includes Mozart's one-act opera, The Impresario, Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat and a program of Viennese waltzes...
Before long, more of his music ought to be finding its way into the concert halls and onto recordings. Several of Gottschalk's long-lost major works, notably the Montevideo Symphony and the one-act opera Escenas Campestres, have been found in a private collection in Rio de Janeiro and have been purchased for the New York Public Library by Concert Pianist Eugene List. 'He was a real pioneer," says List. "His writing is sometimes Chopinesque, sometimes Lisztian, but always definitely American in flavor. It's scintillating, tuneful, fresh. It could have been written today...
...Plaza at the Metropolitan Opera House, the Royal Ballet presented a striking contrast in style and temperament. The City troupe evokes the high-rising glitter of curtain-wall skyscrapers; the Royal reflects the spacious, gracious luster of Britain's princely mansions. Choreographically, the City Ballet shines best in one-act works. The Royal prefers full evening ballets in the classic tradition, like Kenneth MacMillan's fustian Romeo, and Juliet, Sir Robert Helpmann's production of Swan Lake, and Rudolph Nureyev's Nutcracker...