Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start off, they give you The Soldier's Tale. Now we all know that only in The Rite of Spring did Stravinsky truly succeed in his lifelong quest for a musical equivalent of Last Tango in Paris. But it seems to me that The Soldier's Tale comes much closer to bringing music into the twentieth century we know today, the century in which the common people--in the poems of Ezra Pound as well as the jungles of Indochina -- insist on asserting their rightful sway...
...SOLDIER'S TALE, by Igor Stravinsky, and THE COUNTRY DOCTOR, by Hans Werner Henze. This is the second outing this week for Stravinsky's allegory, which Eliot House put on Sunday, but it bears repetition. It's the second American performance of the Henze, which for all I know bears repetition too. Tomorrow and Sunday, 8:30 in the Quincy House Dining Hall...
...this help him to achieve his ambition of winning the annual 26-mile Boston Marathon? No. He once finished 50th but by 1971, the year after Love Story, he had dropped down to 489th in a field of 887. When he produced his second work of fiction, Fairy Tale, in 1973, he was still not a writer either. In fact, he seemed even less of a writer than before...
...Fairy Tale recounted, briefly but tortuously, the adventures of some mountaineers who lived in a region of the Ozarks called Poop's Peak. "From generation to generation," went an all too typical passage, "the Poopers had zealously clung to the truths which made them free. Namely, snoozing and boozing ... The Poopers were congenital shiners of moon, which is to say, hootch hustlers, which is to say, distillers of illegal whisky." When one of them, young Jake Kertuffel, was sent into town to trade in the family jalopy on a new car, he was swindled into accepting a pile...
...long-distance runner in the publishing world than in Boston. In which case the book pointed up a moral (always a comfort to critics). For all its talk of riches, it was really about poverty-of invention. Thus it could be considered not so much a fairy tale as a true confession...