Word: sensuous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Martha Graham took her modern dance troupe on tour in the 1930s and 1940s, her sensuous portrayals of tortured demons and demigods so outraged some audiences that one man in a Southern city took a potshot at her with a BB gun. Now, for the first time in 16 years, Martha Graham, a wispy 71, is touring the U.S. again, thanks to a $142,500 grant from the National Council on the Arts. This time she is drawing bravas instead...
...seriocomic man-woman fencing between Stapleton and Guardino is the special delight of the evening. Here are two people ravenously hungry for each other and yet honestly anxious to cherish each other's dignity. In his most direct play, Williams makes a sensuous sonnet out of his central love symbol: "The rose is the heart of the world...
...nothing approached Die Frau ohne Schatten. Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto requires a primer course in the mythology of six cultures in order to be fathomed, moves murkily between the spirit world, the human world of an impoverished dyer and his sensuous wife (Baritone Walter Berry and Soprano Christa Ludwig), and the go-between world of an emperor and his wife (Tenor James King and Soprano Leonie Rysanek). The empress, alas, is without a shadow-she cannot bear children-and with the aid of a Mephistophelean nurse (Mezzo-Soprano Irene Dalis) she attempts to divest the dyer...
...heard the first half of the concert would have guessed the singers possessed. Particularly striking were the crescendo-decrescendos in the Sanctus, the contrasts in the Benedictus "Osanna in Excelsis," and especially the pianissimo "Dona Nobis Pacem" in which the singers produced one of those beautiful, sensuous sounds that are pleasurable in themselves, independent of melodic or harmonic movement...
...since El Greco's Assumption of the Virgin in 1906. Actually, any pricing of Correggio is arbitrary; in his 40 years, he painted only 40 well authenticated works, and until Chicago's purchase only five were owned by U.S. museums.* And, although Connoisseur Berenson judged Correggio "too sensuous, and therefore limited," the artist has remained astonishingly popular through the centuries...