Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keeps to its promise of "no performances of hackneyed works." Instead it has put on with local talent such rarities as Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Mozart's Requiem. So last week, again festival time in Spartanburg, saw the production of Ernst Bacon's A Tree on the Plains...
...beauty parlors and city lights; the villain, her brother-a jazzing, hitchhiking kid home from the "Aggies." The music had no arias, but many a songful moment, underlined the action as plain people led simple lives, touched with bucolic dignity and rural nobility. Listed as a "music-play," A Tree on the Plains could well have been called folk opera...
...Composers' Theater plan for opera suitable for colleges and little theaters, i.e., easily cast and staged. Commission for the libretto went to his close friend Paul Horgan, poet, novelist, artist, author of the Harper prize novel, The Fault of Angels, other fiction about the Southwest. The resulting A Tree on the Plains is a musically modest opera, occasionally rising to heights of beauty, mainly important as a signpost that opera is turning from an exotic plant into a wayside flower, part of the American scene...
...sequence was not quite correct. He said tomatoes now grew where his barn had been, that the Germans had taken his cow and knocked out his wife with a rifle butt. In other particulars, however, the scene was faithful. Then he added: "We killed the German near the tree over there." There is no more make-believe in Svirki. The Germans took it again last year. Now everyone has a guerrilla role...
...revolt to protest, only to be met by a Lowell statement that their courtyard contains a dogwood, four lilacs, and a cherry. Latest word from "The Latter-Day Eden" is that they expect to counter the Lowell claim by pointing out that their courtyard has Merriman ad a large tree...