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...German football league. DIED. ROBERT WHITEHEAD, 86, stage producer who valued art over the box office and brought to Broadway plays by some of the most distinguished writers of the 20th century; in New York City. In a 60-year theater career, Whitehead mounted premier productions of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending (1957) and Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms (1952), along with the 1984 revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which starred Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich. DIED. DOBRI DZHUROV, 86, reformist communist general who participated in the coup that overthrew Bulgarian dictator Todor Zhivkov...
...concert began with Stravinsky’s Orpheus, a ballet in three scenes based on classical mythology. The story focuses on Orpheus, who mourns the death of Eurydice, but then convinces Pluto to let him be reunited with her in the land of Hades. Orpheus neglects to follow Pluto’s rules and Eurydice dies on the way out of the underworld, while Orpheus is also killed upon returning to earth. Stravinsky wrote the ballet in Hollywood in 1947 and first conducted it with the BSO in 1949. The melancholy of the tale is reflected in the minor dissonances...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra’s rendition was of the highest quality. Metzmacher brings the orchestra through the anger and fear of the underworld to a violent earthly death with expert ease and precision. The piece begins appropriately with a Lento Sostenuto as Orpheus weeps by the coffin of Eurydice; the orchestra then speeds up as Orpheus picks up his lyre and begins to dance. The dissonance of the underground becomes agitated as the Furies try to destroy Orpheus, but they are stilled as the orchestra produces the sonorous sounds of his lyre. In the finale, Orpheus dies amidst...
...METAMORPHOSES A wading pool takes up nearly the entire stage. Ten actors--some dressed in togas, others in modern-day suits--jump in and out of it to re-enact the myths of Ovid. There's Phaeton and his chariot; Midas (in the chair) and his daughter; Orpheus and his underworld voyage. Writer-director Mary Zimmerman's lovely, deeply affecting work (an off-Broadway hit moving to Broadway in March) recaptures the primal allure of the theater--it's fake; isn't it wonderful? Using stage devices that delight with their low-tech ingenuity and a text that modernizes without...
...contextualize Day's photographs. What might seem nave, blasphemous, or offensive if it were produced today comes off as eccentric, or perhaps quaint. Day's oeuvre becomes a historical artifact. His style peaked with the relatively modernist Hampstead series, but it reached its apotheosis in the much later "Orpheus" series, which portrays a young boy in the woods holding a lyre. "Nude Youth with Lyre," from 1907, is "Marble Faun" redone at a much higher level of technical mastery, and, more importantly, it is the work of an artist committed to his tastes. Day's love of classical subject matter...