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...weekend of musical homage that amounted to a Milhaud retrospective (with performances of his Caramel Mou: Shimmy for Jazz Band and Singer, a string quartet, a ballet, 'Adame Miroir, and his one-act opera Medea), local critics rejoiced in "the new turn" Milhaud's futuristic Suite suggested. But to Milhaud himself the new turn was only a pleasant reminiscence of work he did 40 years ago. "Now that everyone else is doing these things," he said cheerlessly, "they think I am following their steps. That is part of the general misunderstanding a composer faces all his life...
...Dumbwaiter and The Collection, by Harold Pinter, are just past the 100-performance mark, but it is doubtful if any playgoer has fully resolved-or ever will-the enigmatic terrors and ironic absurdities with which the playwright invests his eerily modern one-act parables...
...Tiger and The Typists are a pair of one-act, two-character plays by Murray Schisgal, 36, who is handsomely helped by the husband-and-wife acting team of Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson. In The Tiger, an eccentrically violent postman named Ben grabs Gloria, a Long Island housewife, from a New York street, marches her captive to his cold-water lair, and pins her arms behind her. Rape? Murder? What is on the whirling mind of this kook? His room is a chaotic rubble of exposed steampipes, drying clothes, books spilling out of bureau drawers, and a blackboard chalked...
...began his career as a talented prankster. In his famous opera Neues vom Tage (News of the Day), he reversed all the conventional numbers; a hate duet replaced a love duet and a divorce ensemble took the place of a wedding march. He also wrote a one-act opera, Das Nusch-Nuschi, designed it for performance by Burmese marionettes, and worked in a parody of Tristan that outraged loyal Wagnerians. Since those high old days of the 1920s, Paul Hindemith has turned more serious, and his enormous output (including such masterpieces as the opera Mathis der Maler, the symphonies Symphonische...
...Fall 1962 issue is very much a case in point: it is made up of three essays of varying length, a short short story, two poems, a one-act play that-runs to some twenty pages, and a hefty book review. All of the essays are about Jews and Judaism (although one was written by a Catholic, Michael Novak, and concerns itself with the problems he feels arise when a Catholic "encounters" a Jew), the short story has been cast in a specifically Jewish idiom (the involved mock-reminiscence practiced by Issac Bashevis Singer), and at least one...