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Musically, the performance is just as diffident. No matter how often heard, the melodic freshets and torrents of Strauss's score should always flow, but under Conductor Jeffrey Tate's charmless time beating, even the famous waltz proves resistible. Te Kanawa displays her shimmering voice to some advantage in the first act, then fades away. As the bubbly chambermaid Adele, Soprano Judith Blegen is unsure of pitch and unsteady of tone, while Baritone Hakan Hagegard inappropriately plays Eisenstein as a staggering buffoon...
...caution is needed: Sargent's output was huge -- more than 800 portraits and innumerable sketches of people and places -- but its high points do stand out, and too many are missing here, from El Jaleo, 1882, the flamenco scene that is the masterpiece of his youth, to the Tate Gallery's portrait of Lord Ribblesdale, which, when exhibited in Paris before World War I, sent its public into raptures over ce grand diable de milord anglais. This show says little about its subject that was not put more economically by the 1979 Sargent exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts...
Still, if poetry and politics are bedfellows in certain ways, the bed is rarely comfortable. Poetry has none of the active power that politics has. It can protest or commemorate a war but cannot cause one. Assessing the poet's responsibility in the world, Allen Tate derided the romantic notion that if poets "behaved differently . . . the international political order itself would not have been in jeopardy and we should not perhaps be at international loggerheads today." Poets do not have that sort of influence, and undoubtedly would abuse it if they...
...world to the White House and signed them on to her crusade. This from "Queen Nancy," this from the darling of the couturiers? Whispers in Washington still have it that the drug issue was forced on her by the political handlers. In fact, advisers like Mike Deaver and Sheila Tate argued against it. Too negative, they said. A jungle. "Yes, it was a downer," admits Mrs. Reagan. "They didn't want me to get into it." But get into it she did, and even though the press itself is now fretting that it might have gone overboard in its breathless...
...monastery, convent and red-light district. Woronicz makes psychological sense of the duke who retreats into disguise rather than crack down on his realm's licentiousness. John Castellanos shrewdly mutes the hypocrisy and heightens the righteousness of the sex-starved puritan who takes his place. Dante DiLoreto and Kamella Tate throb with youthful passions, profane and sacred, as a young man facing death for having premarital sex and his sister who finds that yielding her own virginity is the only way to save him. Larry Paulsen, who displays range as the clownish Touchstone in As You Like...