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Permanent Resident. Directed by Stuart Vaughan, 38, who ran Manhattan's old Phoenix rep company for five seasons and earlier spent four as artistic director of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, the Seattle company opened with a stern and deliberate production of Lear, followed a night later by a bizarre and romping turn with Max Frisch's The Firebugs. The standard of selection, according to Vaughan, is "classics and could-be classics." The remainder of the season will see productions of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Christopher Fry's The Lady...
...first program, Princeton's first moment of glory came in the Prisoners' chorus from Fidelio, "O welche Lust!" From the quiet, weirdly mobile introduction of the piano, the chorus swelled to the turbulent, if slightly breathy, prisoners' cries. In the Yowes," a Scottish folk song arranged by R. Vaughan Williams, the opening solo of baritone William Parker reduced to complete silence the usual rattlings and coughings of a Sanders audience. The chorus, which by then had warmed up and had warmed its audience to it, continued the delicate clarity with which Paker had begun; conductor Walter Noliner made the song...
Three other students will also be honored. They are: Jean H. Van Ormer of Dickinson College; Richard Eidler, of Bucknell College; and Charles Vaughan, of the Union Theological Seminary...
...last time Cole and Perera collaborated they were also working with opera: the two of them jointly directed the Musical Society's 1961 production of Vaughan Williams' Riders...
Hymns can be modern in lyrics; they had better not be modern in music. Congregations resist anything more daring than the late Ralph Vaughan Williams' For All the Saints, published in 1906. Virtually frozen out of churches, except as one-time experiments, are the much-publicized jazz hymns and liturgies which are supposed to make religion meaningful to the teenagers. But for all the conservatism of hymnal music, ministers seem to agree there is a properly Christian radicalism to the trend in lyrics. "In our faith today," says Savannah's Dr. Bland Tucker, an editor...