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...fault if I consider seeing Turandot preferable to listening to their recording. The album does honor to Turandot. But Puccini's brazen, vivid score sounds best in the opera house--regardless of what high fidelity experts may claim. Furthermore, in a great opera like this, much of the music's power comes from its relation to the mise on scene...
...other. Yet to keep close to the center, to what the monsignor learned about Nerone and about himself, would mean being involved with mystical matters and inward ones, things hard for the stage to bring off. The play, as it stands, is high-purposed and rather high-pitched, is vivid and at the same time ill-harmonized...
...vivid day last week, the NBC peacock was the cynosure of every eye-fluttering peahen from the Bronx Botanical Gardens to Los Angeles' Griffith Park. On show after show, NBC's symbol of color television appeared, while announcers crowed about the network's Color Day, every show a bottled rainbow. For once the soap operas were literally purple, and even Huntley and Brinkley gave hues of the news...
...scene production, shunning traditional grandiosities, keeps largely to a simple platform stage, at times with no more props than a bench and a tree, and often vivid expressionist lighting. The production suffers, however, from a total lack of style, from seeming solidly, even a little clumpingly, echt Deutsch. It may not seem too German for those who know German; for those who do not, Faust is more rewarding in Marlowe's play, or Berlioz' or Gounod's or even Boito's music. But, if not exactly something to see, as a great classic...
...scenes that reveal the Negro badly bruised with race resentments, the girl rather sophomorically looking for an honest man, and the graduate student thinking that he is one in his bellowingly individualistic, care fully tailored misfit way. Their talk can be caustic, their clashes sharp, their belligerent defenselessness vivid. The play's best qualities are its avoiding a sermon ized tone for a bull-session one, among bull-session immaturities, and its trying to push beyond specific race problems to a basic human-race one. Its serious and growing weakness is that to what is largely familiar material...