Word: strindbergism
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...songs now living. "I can put anything to music, including the en cyclopedia," he once remarked, with an engaging lack of diffidence. The New York City Opera and the Ford Foundation believed him, commissioned him to do an opera. Last week Rorem's opera, based on Strindberg's Miss Julie, had its premiere. The overall verdict: Rorem would have been better off with the encyclopedia - and the U.S. is still looking for its first major operatic composer...
...spin and nothing comes of it. I've had two wives, seven children, given out dowries, supported sons-in-law. It's cost me millions! And what have I got? A bunch of enemies, gluttons, parasites." His moody granddaughter, one of the new wave, reads Strindberg, rejects the suitor whom the old man selects for her. She chooses defiantly an impecunious intellectual who talks but cannot act, who admits he is "without God, without a goal, without a skill," who has spent his life running away from life. He marries her, fathers her child, ends by neglecting them...
...Loeb Experimental Theatre is an ideal home for Strindberg's Miss Julie. The small stage, half-enclosed by the audience, provides the intimacy that Strindberg felt was needed for a sensitive performance of the play. Working from this solid structural foundation, directress Marsha Hutchinson has captured brilliantly the wide range and staccato alternation of moods that mark the degeneration of Julie, a Swedish noblewoman...
...nine new courses will include Scandinavian Mythology, Scandinavian Folklore, Introduction to Germanic and Norse Literature. The Age of Kierkegaard, and Advanced Danish, for undergraduates. The Department Germanic languages and Literatures will offer graduate courses in runic inscriptions and modern Swedish literature, as well as a seminar on Strindberg, and possibly a course on modern Icelandic...
...Adams House Drama Society regrets the cancellation of its Strindberg performances last evening, due to illness in the cast. All tickets may be exchanged or refunded at the Coop; they will also be honored at any remaining performances...