Word: petered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adams: Bradford S. Doane '59, H. A. Crosby Forbes '50, Roberts B. Forsyth '50, Peter S. Herman '50, William D. Mulbolland, Jr. '50, and Andrew E. Norman...
...only man who spoiled his part was Paul Sparer as Bert Jefferson, the young editor and romantic lead. He never was able to act with the conviction of the others on stage. Peter Dibble's Dr. Bradley, John Mannick's Mr. Stanley, and David Bowen's Beverly Carlton were all capable, though not inspired performances. Bob Cipes as Banjo made the most of the action and the least, of his lines--but they're very funny lines, and it didn't matter much...
...Metropolitan has been trumpeting a good deal about its new opera, Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes." I suspect that the fanfare has been, at least in part, an attempt to cover its neglect of modern opera, for "Grimes" seems to be the only work in the current repertoire that is less than 30 years old. This is not wholly the fault of the Met, since it has staged several unsuccessful premieres in recent decades; the empty seats in the Opera House Thursday night showed that the responsibility also lies with the public. But the Met has not gone...
...Peter Grimes" was commissioned by the Kousscvitzky Foundation in 1945 and received its first performance under Boris Goldovsky's direction at Tanglewood in 1946. It takes a turn back to pre-Wagnerian opera with recitative and arias. The orchestra is subordinated to action on the state, though, judging by Thursday night's performance, Conductor Emil Cooper must think the opposite. The music is full of the sea--powerful and unsympathetic. It is a fine mood setting for the vicious fishing village, and Grimes' proscription by the other inhabitants is well portrayed. There are several numbers which stand out: the quartet...
Mike Peabody scored eight minutes after the start of the second half and Green converted. Peter Manning-Smith scored Harvard's last try on a forward rush...