Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PIQUE DAME. This is another mar velous blend of the Tchaikovsky-Push kin talents telling the unhappy tale of an obsessive gambler named Hermann who makes a pact with the dead to win a for tune. The singing on the first night (again Atlantov, Mazurok and Milash-kina) was excellent, but here, as on sev eral other occasions, the real stars were Conductor Yuri Simonov, 34, and his powerhouse orchestra, who seize upon each moment of melodrama. "Whatever is written in the score should be heard," says Simonov, echoing his idol, the late Arturo Toscanini. That goes for voices...
...Forest. Anyone familiar with Lillian Hellman's work will not want to miss this, and anyone unfamiliar with it should probably take this opportunity to remedy the situation. This play, written nine years after The Little Foxes, resumes the story of the loveable Hubbard family and its tale of passion, intrigue, fear and loathing. Opens Wednesday at the Loeb at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5.50 and $6.50, but Harvard-affiliated people get one dollar off on tickets brought in advance and student rush tickets...
...vigorous rhythms give it a musical quality that explanation mutes. In Doctorow's hands, the nation's secular fall from grace is no catalogue of sin. no mere tour de force; the novelist has managed to seize the strands of actuality and transform them into a fabulous tale...
...current revival of British imperial style. In Sherlock Holmes reprints, The Great Victorian Collection and innumerable biographies, Victoria Regina rides again. For this intricate mystery, her very nation moves to life. The vowel sounds and alley reeks, the technological detail and social lacunae-all are here, ornamenting a tale based on the celebrated 1850 heist...
Borderland by Neil Claremon. 192 pages. Knopf. $6.95. This remarkable novelette refutes an ancient adage: blood can be coaxed from a stone. The stone is that adamantine sector between Mexico and the U.S. The blood is the fervent tale of an American scientist, J.P., and his Indian mistress, Tsari. J.P.'s gift is an ordinary one: he can only find water under dry land. Tsari has more profound talents: in trances she can heal wounds, commune with animals and see the human soul. It is a secret that she comes in time to share-with ambiguous and perhaps dire...