Word: orpheus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bach Society Orchestra has played some ambitious programs this year. Saturday's may well be their most difficult. The Faure Pelleas et Melisande suite is not easy; nor is Stravinsky's Orpheus. Having picked a vacation weekend to perform, the Bach Soc may well have dug its own hole. Still, Saturday night will be a good chance to hear non-warhorse material in a distinctly relaxed atmosphere...
PAYDAY chronicles 36 hours in the life of a minor country-and-western singer called Maury Dann, a sort of Orpheus pretending who boozes, wenches pops pills and passes along the old payola. As played and sung by Rip Torn -eyes bulging, teeth bared until they look like a couple of upended harmonicas-he seems less gifted in music than m hog calling. Like A Face in the Crowd, Payday tries hard to be about the spiritual bankruptcy of American life, but Director Daryl Duke emulates only the hysteria, not the theatrical fervor, of the 1957 Kazan film. The wretched...
HARVARD SQUARE CINEMA. Thurs. 400 Blows, 2:30, 6, 9:25, Black Orpheus 4:10, 7:40, Friday Seventh Seal 3:30, 6:35, 9:40, Lavender Hill Mob, 2:15, 5:15, 8:15, Saturday Wild Strawherrles 2:35, 6, 9:25, Rules of the Game...
...announce a birth that had actually happened long before. Yet the myth of Jagger's perversity is such that his music was believed to have turned the Hell's Angels into degenerate thugs-which, of course, they already were. There are some brutes whom not even Orpheus can charm, much less Marsyas. An essential aspect of the Orphic myth is that the sweet singer could attract the maenads to pursue him, but could not stop them from tearing him to gobbets; art, a magic key to the irrational, cannot always control the emotions it unlocks. Hence the idiocy...
...work or art form for which he will be especially remembered. Rilke once said that his work "admits to the realm of myth, and he returns from its radiance aglow, as from the seashore." Cocteau was a mythmaker, retreating again and again to myths and fables-Orpheus, Oedipus, Antigone. Angels abound in his writing and painting. He wanted to enchant his audience rather than move them to pity and terror. "I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost." He would have been delighted with Auden's simple epitaph: "The lasting feeling that his work leaves...