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...result, by general agreement, was the most exciting interpretation of the Nibelungen legend ever. The usually reserved audience in Bayreuth's red brick Festspielhaus stamped and cheered till the rafters shook. Munich's conservative Siiddeutsche Zeitung described the production as "a truly sensational feat of music and stagecraft, which surpassed one's highest expectations. A pace-setting event in the history of opera...
...selected 24 gracefully wrought, highly polished little gems. A favorite hero is the trickster figure, who appears in many guises (as a taciturn bumpkin, a crafty samurai, a modest wife, a voluptuous virgin) and unfailingly triumphs. But the Japanese joker is a special breed. A blend of Socrates and Till Eulenspiegel, he serves as gadfly to his ritualistic feudal society, sits in judgment on its fools and fakers. These stories establish him as a considerable literary creation...
...will merely stop making arrests. Judge New, who has disqualified himself for Neal's forthcoming nonjury trial, argues that, nonetheless, Neal has no right to predict future court actions. "If, in fact, I had sent a little old lady to jail for driving too slow, he could editorialize till Christmas comes, and I'd uphold his rights. I'd back him forever, 1,000%. But the point is, slurring the court as to what it will do is crystal-balling which creates disrespect for law and order...
...swelling chorus that any director would snap up for a Biblical movie epic passed into a hot-gospeling rendition of Psalm 100 ("Make a joyful noise unto the Lord"). Psalm 23 ("The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want") was a pastoral solo sung by a boy alto till the chorus interrupted with "Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?" The third and finest section of Bernstein's 18½-minute work interweaves Psalm 131 through a simple canon to a pianissimo "Amen...
...narrow Renaissance windows; artists and audience are on first-name terms within hours. After dusk, international jet setters in white dinner jackets brush shoulders with gaping locals in sweatshirts at the superheated discothéque. Then it is on to a 16th century vaulted cellar that serves cannelloni till dawn...