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MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY by Tristram Coffin. 303 pages. Macmillan...
...music, and five years later made contact with Schoenberg's 12-tone techniques. It was an elastic collision: "I may say that, while I came under Schoenberg's influence, I opposed him with all my musical sensibility." Thus, in Le Vin Herbe, a dramatic oratorio on the Tristram legend first performed in 1942, he combined 12-tone series with chordal sequences, and in his passion oratorio Golgotha, he decomposed a basic 12-note series into harmonically related, sequential sections...
North to Alaska (20th Century-Fox), a sort of northwestern for intellectuals, resets the Tristram legend as a Klondike comedy. Steady now. The Tristram is John Wayne. Bound home to Nome with a load of mine machinery, Sourdough Wayne picks up a package (Capucine) for his prospector pal (Stewart Granger). Though sorely tempted, the big dope delivers the package still wrapped. Can't he see that the girl is madly in love with him? Probably not: Actress Capucine has only one expression at her command, a look of tender gastritis. When Wayne and friend get back to the mine...
...Others have played it straight an impressive list that includes Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace. Layamon, Chretien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Walter Scott, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and now Alan Jay Lerner. In Camelot, he necessarily left out some of the legend's great characters: Sir Kay the Seneschal, Tristram and Isolde, Elaine the lily-maid of Astolat, even Sir Galahad, the squarest knight at the Round Table...
Having finished the chronicle of his Gaelic adventures, Author White has returned to his vast Arthurian cycle, is now working on volume five, the story of Sir Tristram. For the future, Tim White solemnly assures visitors to Alderney, he plans a series of sequels to Shakespeare's plays. The Tempest, for instance, will begin as Prospero leaves the island. Caliban and Trinculo say to each other: "Well, thank God he's gone...