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...premieres received the best performances. The Delius, completed in 1910 and first performed in 1919, proved a major discovery. The perfumed, sensuous score is characteristic of this British composer who spent much of his life in France and suggests Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in its allusiveness and emotional restraint. Yet there is also a distinctly modern sensibility at work in the opera's structure-eleven scenes (or "pictures," as Delius called them) strung together with orchestral interludes...
...image and myth of Italy presides over this show, as it must over any account of 19th century German culture. The reasons are many, but they grow from one stem: Italy offered German artists both sensuous fulfillment and an integral, traditional discipline-as it had, centuries earlier, to their national hero Albrecht Dürer. The luxury lay in nature, the stringency in culture. Goethe's "land where lemons flower" provided its Northern enthusiasts with an inexhaustible supply of prototypes and themes, marmoreal fragments of the Roman past and painted lessons from the Renaissance...
...infectious, and, combined with their refined style often makes for superb concerts. A cappella singing is an acquired taste, but the Kroks' impeccable song selection (mostly Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Richard Rodgers stories of love and destruction), pleasing harmonies and prissily risque patter, all in the sensuous acoustics of Sanders create an enticing package. The Kroks don't just sing, they perform, with that Preppie obsession about sex used occasionally to roaring success, and never, in my experience, to disappointment...
...drama based on the novel, chose Blanche Baker over hundreds of preteens to play eleven-year-old Lo to Donald Sutherland's fortyish Humbert. Blanche is 24, but well qualified. She was virtually born for the role: her mother, Carroll Baker, won stardom 24 years ago as the sensuous heroine of Baby Doll. As for Blanche's advanced age, she says: "I don't think a child actress could understand the unconscious sexuality of Lolita. At eleven, I didn't understand eleven.'' - By Claudia Wallis...
There are scores of surprising talents such as the French Canadian Anne Hebert, 64, and the American Ruth Stone, 65, who are among the most personal, powerful and sensuous of the contemporary poets represented. There are also some regrettable omissions, for example, Jean Valentine, Jane Cooper, Jean Garrigue and Elizabeth Bishop. Yet it should be noted that before her death in 1979, Bishop declined to be included in this anthology. Her reason: it is confined to women. Certainly, as Bishop's demurral suggests, it is no easy matter to designate a writer, a woman and a member...