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...Radio Workshop (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). The Stronger, a one-act opera by Hugo Weisgall...
...Rope, by Louis Mennini, 35, Eastman faculty member and brother of Manhattan Composer Peter Mennin. The plot is based on a one-act play by Eugene O'Neill. An old miser dangles a noose from a barn rafter, hoping his son will hang himself. Instead, the son decides to torture the miser into revealing his money's hiding place. Composer Mennini spent a summer learning the ins and outs of opera composition at Tanglewood, and used his knowledge well. The rub was the music; it seemed too charmingly melodious for the gruesome plot...
Typical of the Master in the help he has given the Leverett House Dramatic Society. When a group of students last year decided to form what has already proven itself a successful organization for the production of one-act plays, Hoadley stayed up late into the night reading possible selections. He wanted to help as much as he could to make the undertaking a success...
...one-act operatic spoof called Apollo and Persephone, staged by the adventurous After Dinner Opera Company. Gayest of the week's premieres, it was written and composed by 40-year-old English Composer Gerald Cockshott (pronounced kosher), who originally dreamed up his libretto for his mentor, Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, but liked it so much that he set it to music himself. The story is a salty, zany rewrite of the Persephone legend. The young goddess is hoping for a man to come along before she gets "broad in the beam and saggy"; first Pluto catches her, then...
When the Leverett House Dramatic Society took it upon themselves to tie three of his one-act plays down to the boards of their dining hall stage, they attempted a hob that has frightened several Broadway producers. On the whole, however, their efforts are quite successful. In one of the plays, they rise to a level very close to professional polish and capability...