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Another episode (1921), drawn from Lady Gregory's one-act play The Rising of the Moon, is tinged with macabre humor that bids to be incredible. Perhaps only the Irish themselves can see the joke in a gallows. During Ireland's Black and Tan ordeal of rebellion "troubles" in 1921, a horde of citizens, ostensibly thumbing their beads, conspire to rescue a Condemned young revolutionary from his British jailers. Wearing saucy high heels under their false habits, two fake nuns thoroughly enjoy their patriotic lark at the death cell, wink, exchange secret smiles and repress girlish giggles while...
...Mozart's Cosí Fan Tutte, Strauss's Ariadne on Naxos, Rossini's Barber of Seville, Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona, plus Stravinsky's Rake's Progress (conducted by Stravinsky Protégé Robert Craft) and the premiere of The Tower, a one-act opera by young (24) U.S. Composer Marvin Levy. Crosby is also proud that his Santa Fe group, recruited from such companies as the NBC Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, is "completely self-contained," i.e., it can operate independently of guest artists...
Pastor Guenter Rutenborn, who is somewhere in East Germany, wrote The Sign of Jonah immediately after the war, for a Germany that was standing shocked and beaten in the rubble of the Third Reich. The one-act play was intended only for a church group, but so intimately did it speak to the anguish and anger of the time that Jonah ran for more than a thousand performances on a professional West Berlin stage and on the road. Slight in size, it nevertheless bites off a big chunk of cosmos, compressing into an hour-long performance a range that includes...
...best one-act play submitted will be produced next November in conjunction with the Society's production of "Miss Julie" by August Strindberg. Entries may be submitted until early next fall, and the winner will be selected by a group of drama educators...
...Open Road. Trying to follow each poet's vision, the music seemed to have little vision of its own, but it was skillfully scored. It evoked a lusty boo or two along with the applause in usually well-mannered Carnegie Hall. ¶Ernst Krenek's one-act opera. The Bell Tower, was premiered at the University of Illinois' Festival of Contemporary Arts, proved to be a stark, tight, declamatory work with a plot revolving about the dark deeds of a diabolical bell caster, Banna-donna. The score by Vienna-born Composer Krenek, 56, impressed critics with...