Word: vida
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FALLA: LA VIDA BREVE (2 LPs; Angel). This short opera is about the short, unhappy life of Salud, a gypsy girl who is cruelly betrayed by her lover and falls dead at his wedding. The gypsy's passion and her pathos are exploited to the full by Spanish Soprano Victoria de los Angeles-unfortunately without much help from supporting singers. Falla's early work is studded with folk dances and flamenco songs, all fierily clicked off by the National Orchestra of Spain, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducting...
...VIDA by Oscar Lewis. 669 pages. Random House...
...Children of Sánchez-Lewis lets his subjects tell their story into a tape recorder. In Sanchez, this approach produced something very much like poetry, as a fiercely proud, slum-dwelling Mexican family exposed their seams and their hearts to Lewis' patient, uncritical machine. In La Vida, the effect is suffocating and ugly...
Undeniable Claim. La Vida asserts this point with overwhelming strength. The Ríoses are trapped, trapped among other reasons by force of habit, even by inclination-"Hey, I'm proud to be poor!" says Simplicio-and once this occurs to the reader, he begins to lose interest in them. They are, to begin with, not very interesting people, unlike the Sánchezes, whose brotherhood to all humanity constituted a claim that no one could deny...
...most difficult parts in the show is that of Vida Phillimore, the judge's ex-spouse. Unfortunately, Lynn Milgrin is not quite the woman for the job. She strives hard to be a vamp, a loose woman who attracts men to her chamber like a queen bee, but the effect is rarely alluring, and occasionally ludicrous. When attempting satire, however, Miss Milgrim is more at home, her eyes and hands doing as much as her voice to develop the situation. Her bedroom scene in the second act is particularly fine...