Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come to life in a hocus-pocus scene which is badly out of step with the simple poetry of the production. Wilson seems to believe so fiercely in the powers of imagination that he is ultimately trapped by them. He's a visionary, poetic playwright and at times his vision seems to over-whelm...
...times the guise of literary (or some other) taste, can in itself turn out to be, if not a guarantee, then a form of defense, against enslavement. For a man with taste, particulalry with literary taste, is less susceptible to the refrains and the rhythmical incantations peculiar to any vision of political demogogy...
...events were significant but not central to the drama. For the essential 1968 was mythic. It proceeded chaotically and yet finally had the coherence and force of tragedy. And if it was the end of some things (of the civil rights movement, of Lyndon Johnson's generous social vision, of the liberals' hope to keep government on its trajectory), it prepared the way for other beginnings: the women's movement, the environmental movement, the complex reverberant life that the '60s would have in the American mind long after the melodrama was over and those previously on fire went to tend...
...become dull and predictable; musicians and audiences are suffering from repetitive routines and formula- type programming; there is an acute shortage of conductors who not only know their scores inside out but also are inspiring leaders; and there is just as great a shortage of administrators who possess artistic vision and imagination...
Operatically, there are Mozart's youthful Il sogno di Scipione and Vaughan Williams' radiant vision of the celestial city, The Pilgrim's Progress. And some company could put itself on the map with a production of Soviet Composer Yuri Shaporin's spectacular Dekabristi (The Decembrists), a thrilling musical melange of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Shostakovich that is also a vivid piece of theater...