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...directing Moliere's "Imaginary Invalid," the first play she has directed which is not twentieth century. In her production of "The Imaginary Invalid," Coe has fused her directorial and authorial talents by integrating three translations to compose the script, "to depart from the stiff, dull and awkward seventeenth century prosaic speech patterns to which the academic translators feel committed. But this departure from the sacred script," she goes on to explain, "is just an extension of the motif we have followed in every aspect of our production: anachronism." As she firmly guides the rehearsal she interjects suggestions that...
...Written in Angola in the Seventeenth century by an anonymous Portugese...
...most striking difference between the Concentus Musicus and other orchestras is the quality of sound: this group is completely different. The reason is the instruments: all are originals or reconstructions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century instruments. The strings have a far brighter sound, richer in harmonics than their modern counterparts. The string choir resembles a group of soloists rather than the modern symphony's big, anonymous cushion of sound. The woodwinds are changed from the way we know them: the oboes and bassoons, like the strings, are sharper and brighter; the flute is much softer. The brass is an entirely...
Bernard Culshaw's set is perfect for this production, consisting simply of a ramp in the middle half of the stage leading to a backdrop, constructed as strictly as a seventeenth century Italian stage, focused on a vanishing point in a painted setting sun. It is a bone set to go with a bare production, and, like the rest of the production, it demonstrates a solid grasp of the fundamentals...
William G. Bowen, an economist and provost of Princeton, was named president of Princeton Monday, ending a seven month search for the university's seventeenth president...