Word: rusticating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without Glen, the public would not have accepted so heartily the more rustic country entertainers that have now achieved stardom...
...Farmer Colas (Nureyev) and Lise (Merle Park), daughter of the ambitious widow Simone. With English country dancing and an intricate cavort around a Maypole, it is by no means all Nureyev's show. The familiar danseur noble, burning with erotic fervor, vanished. In his place was an impish rustic, playing cat's cradle, exploding from a stack of wheat bundles. At 36, Nureyev has acquired a new maturity; his dancing is less mannered. In solo work he seems eerily to be improvising-as if he were taking each leap for the first time. And he is trying...
...slight ridge on which the schools and church sit. So it's here that the music from the only two record players with loudspeakers meets at 6:00 a.m. and merges with the grunting, clucking and bellowing of the village animals in a cacophony of modern and rustic...
...excessive foot stamping do not contribute to the majesty of the two kings.) Jeremiah Riemer as the rogue Autolycus is a particularly entertaining miscreant and Robert Cohen is deft in the role of a faithful courtier. Other actors's readings are often engaging and effective--Charles Genrich's rustic Clearius and Eleni Constantine's dewy-eyed Perdita add sparkle to the humorous second portion of the play...
Unfortunately, the entire Symphony is not up to the level of its beginning. The third movement, though, has what is usually labeled "rustic charm". It is where, in a phrase from the jacket notes too good to ignore, "the tone of the oboe is somewhat hazardously exploited." The ending, suitably grand, is not particularly remarkable. The performance by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has the proper romantic sheen to the string sections and the crisp, booming quality of English winds--a legacy of the military bands that still play in parks on Saturdays, Sundays. and Bank Holidays...