Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theodore Chanler's The Pot of Fat, at the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Mass., had a plot based on a Grimm fairy tale about the disastrous marriage between a trusting mouse and a villainous cat. The libretto evoked critical catcalls, but the music had a light charm bordering on jazziness. At 53, Composer Chanler has never tried his hand at opera before, but his songs are standouts...
...Bernard Rogers' The Nightingale (on a double bill with Miracle) retells the famous Andersen fairy tale of the Chinese emperor who prefers a mechanical nightingale to the real thing. This is Rogers' fourth opera (his second was The Warrior, which was sung at the Met in 1947). At 62, he shows some pleasant signs of mellowness, but The Nightingale's chirping was too insistently Chinese and too disorganized for comfort...
Paula Budlong, much enamoured of the terrifying Shirley Jackson, has written a story of a sleepy town which feeds on terror. The ending is somewhat weak in that the ultimate disaster is not really forced by the townspeople, but on the whole it is a fascinating tale...
...feel compelled to state that Crane's drinking, social or otherwise, seemed less than enthusiastic . . . Over a half century ago when A Derelict, a short story by Richard Harding Davis, appeared, it was whispered among the literati that Channing, the more than generous newspaper correspondent of the tale, was actually Stephen Crane. Davis denied the supposed inference . . . I hope it is not about to be resurrected by Mr. Sinclair...
...right alongside her characters in all their anguished blindness. If she could ever appear to stand above them, Novelist Jameson might create true tragedy. As it is, she continues effectively enough in the task she set herself long ago-"not to cheat, but to record every item in the tale of mistakes, joys, cruelties, and simple meannesses that make up our dealings one with others...