Word: one-act
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...vice president, hired McDonald as private secretary. But all the while he was learning the union ropes, in the tough Appalachian coal districts, Dave studied theater on the side. By 1932, he had won a certificate of graduation from Carnegie Tech's drama school, written a couple of one-act plays, dallied with a chance to go to Hollywood as an assistant director. Then history gave Dave McDonald and all other unionists their big chance...
...Freud, Bluebeard was a fairytale monster with a pleasantly chilling tendency toward murder. After Freud, Bluebeard's libido became a subject for reexamination. The late composer Bela Bartok and Librettist Bela Balasz were quick to see the possibilities, in 1911 put the theory into the form of a one-act opera, Bluebeard's Castle. It was staged for the first time in the U.S. last week by the New York City Opera...
...first performance of Atonalist Arnold Schoenberg's 1909 "monodrama," Erwartung (Expectation), and his Manhattan audience seemed to find it considerably less noisy and strident than expected. Columbia Records stepped in quickly, got Mitropoulos, his New York Philharmonic-Symphony and Soprano Dorothy Dow to record it. Erwartung's one-act story is somber, not to say macabre: a woman sings her innermost thoughts as she goes to a woodland tryst, stumbles over the dead body of her lover. The score sounds something like that of Alban Berg's Wozzeck, it is introverted and complex, but it succeeds...
...first opera by Victor Yellin, '49, is a distinct disappointment considering the fine writing that is so evident in his other works. Prescription for Judy, his short one-act piece presented by the Musical Guild Sunday night, is purportedly an attempt to unite operatic form with the American language and the American scene. This is a fine idea, but the prescription lacks several important ingredients...
Musical Entertainment: Gian-Carlo Menotti and NBC, for the "tender and moving one-act opera Amahl and the Night Visitors...