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RICHARD STRAUSS: THE LIFE OF A NON-HERO, by George R. Marek. The great romantic composer is viewed amidst a vivid evocation of cultural life in Germany -whose decay and upheaval after World War I, argues the author, was the primary cause of Strauss's disappointing later output...
Persichetti's Spring Canata, a setting of four poems by e.e. cummings for women's chorus, was in contrast vivid and lively. Vaughn Williams's In Windsor Forest, the most voluptous piece on the program, was also the best performed. Kay Tolbert's crisp solo in "The Conspiracy" and the chorus' rendition of the dreamy meanderings of the "Wedding Chorus" were perfectly natural and uninhibited. So were the two spirituals at the end of the program; Archie Epps in "Ride on King Jesus" created a lilting pulse that was still with me long after the concert. And in Britten...
...Advocate is John Allman's. He has a highly functional sense of rhythm and meter which he combines with a capacity for descriptive precision. In "Cambridge Spring" he uses both skills to recreate the voice of a stunned narrator describing a sudden transition of feeling from understated calm to vivid panic...
...fighting in Szechwan was only the most prominent of Mao's troubles last week, as spelled out in the big-character graffiti of wall posters. China-watchers did not believe all the vivid writing on the walls, but even at a discount the poster accounts added up to widespread turmoil. Some 35,000 autoworkers in Manchuria were said to have wrecked eight schools used by the Maoists as bases. The posters described clashes in Peking and Shanghai, claimed that fighting took place in Shantung in east China, in northwestern Sinkiang, the site of China's nuclear installations...
...books of the New Testament are considerably more vivid in their portrayal of the hereafter. In Revelation, heaven is described as a city of "pure gold" whose walls are "adorned with every jewel," and hell is called "the lake that burns with fire and brimstone"; in hell, according to Matthew, sinners "will weep and gnash their teeth." Though scholars regard such descriptions as being primarily imagery, Christianity at one time accepted them as literally true. In the Middle Ages, Dante confidently limned a topography of the beyond that seemed as convincingly detailed as a map of Italy...