Word: violas
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...clearly and prettily as possible while still maintaining a reasonable degree of intensity. The Old Vic actors take this tack, and here again competence is the order of the evening, although Barbara Jefford is too solid and self-assured to be right for Viola. Half the pathos of the lorn and lonely girl, washed up on a strange and almost friendless coast, is lost when the actress gives the impression that she is perfectly capable of taking care of herself...
...Scherchen is trailed virtually everywhere he goes by four students whom he accepts only on condition that they will spend three years with him ("My requirements from my students are so extravagant that they have little time for personal life"). Himself a onetime viola prodigy, he made his conducting debut with the Berlin Philharmonic when he was 20. In his years of battling for new works, he has developed a reputation of being the timpani-tempered tyrant of European music. He generally bans composers from rehearsals of their own works, never hesitates to cut whole passages from new works...
Bridges, 57, never one to duck a fight, attempted three times the next day to get a marriage license and was rebuffed. "She isn't really a Japanese," he protested to the marriage clerk. "She was born in the United States." Replied Clerk Viola Given: "It isn't where you were born, but your bloodstream that counts." The couple re-registered for separate rooms at the hotel. On the third day U.S. District Judge Taylor Wines, on a petition filed by Bridges, gave his ruling: "The right to marry is the right of the individual, not the race...
...grandly absurd in the letter scene, and in his yellow stockings and cross garters, really funny. Jane Downs's Olivia, Judi Dench's Maria, Dudley Jones's Feste, John Neville's Sir Andrew all bring something personal to their roles, and Barbara Jefford's Viola is attractively girlish whether in man's dress or woman...
...first performance three years ago. After an interval in which Webern's fame has grown tremendously, Boulez' piece has become more accessible, although it remains a rather tough puzzle. Certainly it has far more surface attraction than the Stockhausen recorded here: Boulez call for alto flute, xylorymba, vibraphone, guitar, viola, and several exotic percussion instruments. Four of the nine sections are settings of surrealistic poetry by Rene Char; the contralto Margery MacKay displays here an engagingly warm and sensuous voice. Practically all of the music moves at a furious tempo; this speed, coupled with the wide intervals and the high...