Word: sonata
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another original work of Babe's, a four-scene opera entitled The Cursed Dauncers, will also run on the main stage next spring. The score for the opera was composed by Alfred F. Guzzetti '63 who wrote the incidental music for Babe's recent production of The Ghost Sonata...
Strindberg's "The Ghost Sonata" is at the Loeb Drama Center, at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $2. The Charles Playhouse is giving "The Threepenny Opera," tonight at 5:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., and Sunday...
...this sense, he both misses the truth of the play, and, by this very fault, proves its validity. We so much the more belong to Strindberg's configuration by every insufficient and damaging appraisal we make of the appearances before us. Thomas J. Babe, Jr. '63, Director, "Ghost Sonata...
...Note: Mr. Babe has said precisely and thoroughly just what I was trying to express in my very awkward review. I never meant to Imply that we must see "The Ghost Sonata" through Strindberg's psychological history, or even that we must be aware of this history. That would be bad journalism and bad sense. But I did mean that Evil or not, a stage imposes some detachment on its audience, and that we can only overcome this detachment by seeing the play as "shifting states of mind" with which we can sympathize--"immediate, second-to-second perceptions and judgments...
...rules of human procedure," or "rigid code of ethics." But this is a small point indeed, and I certainly would not have had to make it if my review had been as clear and meticulous as Mr. Babe's letter and, I should add, his direction of "The Ghost Sonata."--R. W. Gordon...