Word: vocalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caldwell acknowledges that the situation of twenty-five years ago has changed. "But each of my novels is contemporary for the year in which it is written. People themselves are softer now." Caldwell sees his job as a writer as making him into a sort of vocal mirror. "I just try to reflect life. I'm not trying to prove anything. A writer, though, does have to interpret, too. I try to do it, try to illuminate a little bit, enlighten." When looking for a character, he looks for the one thing which makes him different, the part...
Composer Kurka, Chicago-born son of Czech parents, started on the project with Librettist Lewis Allan three years ago, finished the vocal score and 350 pages of orchestration before his death of leukemia last December at the age of 35. His good friend Hershy Kay completed the orchestration from Kurka's red-penciled notes. Loose-jointed and episodic, the opera introduces Schweik (Tenor Norman Kelley) as he is being arrested for "high treason," traces his progress through a scurvy prison and a madhouse, follows him into the army as an orderly. At the end he wanders away from...
...extremely difficult to handle well, the composer has added to his problem by choosing to satirize the very form of opera buffa itself. The result is a complete triumph. Using his modest orchestra with facility and great wit, and demonstrating a sensitive awareness of the comic possibilities of vocal writing, Mr. Perkins has composed a score which is fully as funny as the satiric libretto by Wayne Shirley...
...actor with a grandiose voice, he himself can get away with a heavy, solid, nearly motionless style of acting, because his voice does most of the work. But no one else on stage, not even Katherine Cornell, who often visibly tries to compete with Quayle on a purely vocal, statuesque level, can get away with...
...attendance, living testimony to the efficacy of early detection and prompt treatment. Other townspeople allowed use of before-and-after pictures, some showing faces horribly deformed by cancer, then repaired by skillful surgery. One of the most eloquent volunteer exhibits was a man who had had his vocal cords removed for cancer of the larynx: Deputy Sheriff Sproul Dean, who has learned to speak through his gullet with swallowed air. Said he: "I recovered from that thing, and I want to show others that they...