Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everyone knows the story on which Randall Thompson has based his little opera. It is Kipling's tale of "The Butterfly That Stamped," of the hen-pecked butterfly who in desperation boasted that he could conjure away Solomon's palace by stamping his foot--and did. Thompson has dramatized the story as simply as possible, and produced a delightful blend of humor and fantasy. Musically his work is no less simple, being based on a halfdozen or so leading melodies. The music at times smacks strongly of Handel, especially in the spirited little military prelude with its trumpet flourishes...
...trouble," sadly concluded Hosmer, "is we all like a good tale too well not to believe it-especially when it suits us to believe...
Many a mere man still flinches at the sight of the incarnadined fingernails which modern woman flaunts as a matter of course. Such anti-manicurists could derive moody satisfaction from a tale told recently in the British Medical Journal...
...epic-minded Brothers Korda (Producer Alexander and Director Zoltan) to make Kipling's beloved animal fable of Mowgli, the Hindu boy who was raised by jungle wolves, into a movie. It can't be done. The myth-destroying movie camera produces a laborious, sometimes silly tale, saved from disgrace only by some of the best Techni-colored animal photography extant...
...this whimsical tale, which marches like the King of France up to the inaudible stamp, then back again, Thompson added a fresh, unaffected, transparent score packed with singable melody. Listeners, noting the conventional harmonies, the archaic touches, the occasional flavor of Handel's music, decided that Thompson in his music, as Kipling in his story, was turning to the past...