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OREGON SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL, Ashland (July 19-Sept. 7). The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night and King John are the varied fare of the Elizabethan theater's 29th season. Virtue in Danger, an updated romantic musical escapade revived from the 17th century by Screenwriter-Lyricist Paul Dehn and Composer James Bernard, will serve as the matinee, a light after-lunch petite farce...
...religions of the Far East for his spiritual overtones, using an assortment of percussion instruments, horns, bells and even incantations. In The Creator Has a Master Plan, sensuous, mesmerizing sounds roll over repeated phrases, curling peaceably upward like incense. In Colors, Pharoah's tenor saxophone begins a tempest of cries and emphatic screeches that hint at lurking discord in the universe. The harmonious moments of his music, though, far outnumber the discomforting ones, and suggest a passionate belief in man's perfectibility...
...paintings of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Its panorama of steely swirls is underlaid with nails, cigarettes, tacks, buttons and other detritus-yet all made lovely, as it were, by lying drowned at the bottom of a sea of paint, vividly evocative of Ariel's song in The Tempest...
Kokoschka's best work from that period is Tempest, an oil that depicts the lovers swept up in a swirling sea of waves. "It is my most beautiful portrait," Alma wrote, noting that it showed her "trustfully clinging to him, expecting all help from him who, despotic of face, radiating energy, calms the mountainous waves." The theme of Tempest is repeated in miniature form-as the entwined lovers on the Bay of Naples-on one of the seven swanskin fans. On another, Kokoschka inscribed the Alma of the Alpine mural, adding himself as St. George fighting the dragon. Today...
...author's vigorous humanism, it transcends particulars and turns events into allegory. In The Third Bank of the River and Other Stories,* many of the particulars dissolve, leaving the author's metaphysical core standing alone. It is as Guimarāes Rosa intended. The book is his Tempest, the parting reverie, the mystical indulgence after the hurlyburly, the lightening of the load for a final assault on the summit...