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...converse in such a way as recitative, and do not place themselves at fixed distances, in a quartet, waving their arms to express their emotions." In a similar vein, Dr. Johnson called opera "an exotic and irrational entertainment," and it caused Charles Lamb "inexplicable anguish." Says British Conductor John Pritchard: "There is a tremendous backlog of Puritan suspicion of opera...
MONTEVERDI: THE CORONATION OF POPPEA (Angel; 2 LPs). Monteverdi's last opera was the first with psychologically true characters who tell their story in almost continuous melody rather than long declamations. Conducted by John Pritchard for the Glyndebourne Festival, this is a cut-down version, but it includes all the scenes leading up to the triumph of immorality. The able cast includes Tenor Richard Lewis as the love-struck Nero, Soprano Magda Laszlo as Poppea and Soprano Frances Bible as Ottavia...
Secret Tunnel. Dr. Pritchard thinks that Zarethan was a city of Canaanites who were ruled by the Hebrews in Jerusalem, but he is also convinced that its site was inhabited long before the Hebrew invasion. For one thing, it had plenty of water, a rarity in the Jordan Valley. After spotting springs that still flow from the foot of the mound, Dr. Pritchard knew by experience what to look for next. Leading down the side of the mound he uncovered 86 stone steps of a staircase with walls on either side and another in the center. Before erosion destroyed...
Below the thriving city of Solomon's time (961-922 B.C.) lie many earlier cities. While probing in a slightly lower part of the mound, Dr. Pritchard stumbled by accident upon his most spectacular find: a mud-walled tomb with the skeleton of a woman of high station, perhaps a local queen. She lay with rich grave goods still around her-500 beads of carnelian and 75 of gold, silver pins, a silver chain, four ivory boxes, an ivory spoon with a human head carved on it, and many objects of bronze and pottery. She must have died about...
With summer approaching in the worse-than-tropical Jordan Valley 750 ft. below sea level, Dr. Pritchard went home to Philadelphia to plan next season's dig. He is sure that the Hill of the Sa'īd Women is entirely manmade, and he longs to get to the bottom of it. Perhaps when he has cut through city after city, he will turn up a neolithic village as old as Jericho on the other side of the Jordan, which now ranks as the oldest town on earth...