Word: screne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Happily less pretentious, and much more satisfying, Walter Piston's Interlude came when just that was needed. Not startling, not astounding, not even particularly original; but pleasant to hear, the screne little piece luxuriates in the tone of the viola. Doktor's relaxed sounds flowed, and well...
...plot is happily forgotten after the first act, and everyone (or at least everyone at all important in the play) is free to fleet carelessly in the golden world of Arden. Nor do the fleeting characters present much of a problem: Shakespeare has delineated their roles with a screne certainly. Rosalind, so "full of voluble, laughing grace" (the phrase is Hazlitt's), dominates the forest, and her own investigation of the pastoral tradition is accompanied by the parallel but ultimately limited investigations of the comedy's two commentators, the material fool, Touchstone, and the melancholic traveler, Jaques...