Word: prioress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Earth. Penderecki based The Devils of Loudun on both Aldous Huxley's historical essay and John Whiting's play The Devils. The libretto sketches the facts surrounding the torture and execution of a Jesuit priest in a 17th century French provincial town. Sister Jeanne of the Angels, prioress of St. Ursula's Convent, asks Father Urbain Grandier (sung by Baritone Andre Hiolski) to become the cloister's confessor. When the worldly, sensual priest declines the offer, Sister Jeanne has a series of hysterical sexual hallucinations that soon infect other nuns in the convent. Eventually, the sisters...
...ours! Blue-eyed soul? The answer to your question-"Does this mean that white musicians by definition don't have soul?"-is simply and unequivocally yes. Obviously they can mouth the words and hit the notes, but, well, it's like Chaucer described the Prioress in The Canterbury Tales...
...pilgrims gather for a fitting finale at the candlelit cathedral shrine of St. Thomas a Becket, and a choral reprise of the prioress' and the nun's earlier simple duet...
...medical missionary? After all, she has been giving injections to grapefruits, practicing for the day when she can inoculate a native without flinching. Should all that citrus go to waste? Helping and hindering her in her decision are Ricardo Montalban as a priest, Greer Garson as her mother prioress and Ed Sullivan as himself. Sullivan, who has but two expressions, intense pain and acute embarrassment, gets ample opportunity to display both...
...role of the raving Prioress should rightfully contrast with the sane and balanced Grandier, but Anne Bancroft still overplays it. Her Prioress believes too completely in her demoniac possesion, so we miss that nether-land between consciousness and unconsciousness in which the real Soeur Jeanne acted. Miss Bancroft also plays the unpossessed sequences with an overflowing wholesomeness, while Huxley discloses her character as both bitter and shallow...