Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exists only in the mind of the Medium, who projects her world into the lives of the other characters. Menotti's eerie music sustains this mood, as the voices of the Medium and her daughter, Monica, float ethereally through the tense atmosphere, finally focusing outward in the sharp song of fear...
...Four songs by Yehudi Wyner, 1G, received the most appreciative applause of the evening. Although Brownie, based on a poem by A. A. Milne, was described as being in a "lighter vein," it is in fact a graphic representation of a small child's momentary terror of the unknown. The composer tellingly recreates the image of the poem--a child's imaginary view of the sinister "Brownie," dispelled by the interjection of a companion--by a parallel tension and relaxation of the musical line. When You Are Old And Gray, based on a poem by Yeats, is a beautifully conceived...
...told him I would. I met them with T. J. present. They gave me the old song and dance about being local citizens and taxpayers and that they should have an inside track to the construction contracts. I told them that the contracts would be let to the lowest bidders wherever they came from* . . . T. J. turned to his friends and said 'I told you that he's the contrariest man in the county. Get out of here.' When they were gone, he said to me: 'You carry out your commitment to the voters...
...versatile Mr. Chabay returned to sing Bartok arrangements of five Hungarian folk songs. These range from the pathetic irony of In Jail to the half-cheerfulness of Dance Song, and the tenor sung them all with such finesse and sympathy that he was called back for an encore...
...filler sketches center either on a torch song by Lahr's attractive co-star Delores Gray or some mild mass choreography by the troupe. Miss Gray has a pleasant torch voice, but songs like There never was a baby like my baby are pretty thin. The many dance sequences, mostly people in purple suits running to and fro about the stage to some quickly forgotten tune, are unimpressive. Unfortunately this filler drags Two on the Aisle down to the level of just mild entertainment...