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...came L'Histoire du Soldat, piquant, freeze-dried chamber music for seven players. Works like Pulcinella (1920) and The Fairy's Kiss (1928), based on themes of Pergolesi and Tchaikovsky, crowned Stravinsky's neoclassical shift away from the Dionysian revels of his youth. Oedipus Rex (1927) and Apollon Musagètes (1928) eloquently confirmed not only a new sobriety and austerity but also a new allegiance to the Apollonian ideal of lucidity and order...
Stravinsky's career spanned a series of distinguished creations. Petrouchka, L' Histoire du Soldat, Oedipus Rex, dozens more. But perhaps his true spirit is reflected as well in his later works, his short pieces composed when he no longer had the energy for major works. His arrangements of poems and other texts, like his setting of The Dove Descending Breaks the Air. his short fanfares, his occasional pieces and variations, all are touched by his genius. Although his health failed drastically in his later years, and most of his business was carried on by an assistant, his creative career...
...meantime, Dover has been working out in the IAB daily trying to improve his game. "With Jo-Jo White, Don Chaney and Rex Morgan as my competition, I've got to be at my best," he said. "You can be sure that I'm working on my outside shot...
...makeup could make Albert Finney look like that nun, and I guess he wasn't perfectionist enough to go on a starvation diet. The second problem is that Finney can't sing. He may sing well enough in his normal voice, but he can't even manage the Rex Harrison method of speaking a song when he puts on Scrooge's old, gruff voice...
...Oedipus Rex, King of Thebes, died this week in his new home, Where's Poppa? Mr. Oedipus was 2,500 years old and had been ailing for almost a century. His troubles began on the couch. From Oedipus complex it was an easy plunge to Oedipus simple, bottoming out in pop-psych idiocy like Where's Poppa?, which offers the case of Gordon Hocheiser (George Segal) and his mama (Ruth Gordon...