Word: rex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex is a remarkable piece of dramatic music. Its text is a Latin version of a French translation of the Greek tragedy. Stravinsky's music, sometimes wildly discordant, sometimes quietly lyrical, provides a straightforward yet imaginative setting of the theme. The dissonances all mean something--they usually occur at especially dramatic moments (as when Oedipus first realizes that he has killed his father and married his mother) and the result is terrifying. Wesley Addy, beautifully narrating in English, made each section comprehensible; the Orchestra and Harvard Glee Club sounded positively fierce. As for the soloists, only Paul...
...Glee Club will also sing Stravin-sky's Oedipus Rex, accompanied by the orchestra. Soloists in this performance will be Oscar M. Henry 2G, and Paul Tibbetts...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). An Ideal Husband, with Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer...
...long. But on the stage the play lacks pace and flow, the detail eats up the design. Venus is none the better for Sir Laurence Olivier's irresolute staging, which leaves most of the cast uncharacterized and even Lilli Palmer living entirely off charm. The splendid exceptions are Rex Harrison as the duke and John Williams as the estate manager. Fry, in his own words, is here coruscating on thin ice; and he has forgotten Emerson's warning that in skating on thin ice, "our safety is in our speed...
...point point of view, the reign of George VI might be considered a succession of dismal retreats and impoverishments, broken only by a gratifying climax to the second world war. British coin, which at the beginning of his reign was enscribed with "Georgius VI Dei Gra Britt Omn Rex Fid Def Ind Imp" and was worth nearly $5 a pound, now says simply "Georgius VI Dei Gra Britt Omn Rex Fid Def" and is worth $2.80. The structure of the Commonwealth has become a good deal more flexible, and the entire Commonwealth has been overshadowed by the great power struggle...