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...lasts just 82 minutes, with no interval, and uses only four singers, plus two speaking actors. The full orchestra has been reduced to 15 musicians. Everything unnecessary to the plot has been jettisoned in an effort to return to the sunbaked spirit of the original Prosper Mérimée novella. Gone are the choruses of soldiers and cigarette girls, as well as most of the opera's secondary characters. Instead, the focus is on the hotheaded Basque dragoon Don José and his fatal passion for the dark-eyed gypsy Carmen. Brook has even given the work...
...seat opera house. Brook has chosen his singers as much for their acting skills as for their voices. By tightening the plot he creates dramatic situations beyond anything envisioned by Bizet's librettists (Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy) or even by Mérim&233;e. In this version, Carmen and Micaela, Don José's girlfriend from back home, are direct rivals and have a real fight when Carmen carves a bloody cross on Micaela's forehead...
...hoopsters never found it. The Navy press forced freshman guard Bob Ferry to throw up a desperation foul line jumper which clanged against the front of the rim. Carrabino fouled Navy forward Don Griffin on the rebound, and the Middie went to the line for a one-and-one. He hit the front end, making the score 65-63. His second shot, however, missed the rim entirely and fell to the floor...
...Miami-Dade Community College, which helped create the PBS introductory course in psychology, 1,000 students are learning by screen. Faculty members conduct optional review sessions on campus, produce extra exams and evaluate student work by phone or letter. Burlington County College, located on the rim of the pine Barrens in southern New Jersey, has 24 students taking the PBS Shakespeare course. Their assignment includes reading two comedies, two tragedies and two historical dramas and watching six televised performances (from the Shakespeare series co-produced by BBC-TV and Time-Life Television). The midterm and final can be submitted...
...Sanders concert under Nadia Boulanger, performing tudor music, music "in the halls for which it was written," singing under Bernstein for Pope Paul VI. There are other memories, of course: private conversations with members of the Czechoslovakian chorus, watching the sunrise with other Glee Club members on the North rim of the Grand Canyon...