Word: wagnerism
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...Seattle Opera, for example, is in the seventh summer of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, in both English and German cycles. The San Diego Opera stages a Verdi festival, producing the relatively obscure works-this year Un Giorno di Regno-along with the more familiar ones. Usually defined as companies other than the so-called Big Five-New York's Metropolitan, the San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera and the New York City Opera-the regional groups are distinguished by their employment of American artists and even American composers. Last season the more...
...Nighthawks is so moronically written and directed, so entirely without wit or novelty, that there is plenty of time to wonder about its many missing explanations. Also missing is the leading lady -Lindsay Wagner, who is supposed to be Deke's beloved but has only two brief scenes. Also absent are the charm and style Billy Dee Williams might have brought to his role as Deke's partner...
Boorman set himself a task only slightly less daunting than the search for the Holy Grail: to tell, in 140 minutes, the epic of Arthur, Guenevere and the Knights of the Round Table. He has a millennium of tough acts to follow: Malory and Tennyson and Tolkien, Wagner and Lerner and Loewe. On screen in the '70s, George Lucas set the story in space (Star Wars); Robert Bresson made it austere (Lancelot of the Lake), and six English cutups made it funny (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) But Boorman has never been cowed by precedent or expectations...
...colonel fought fiercely, hand to hand, but they were hopelessly outnumbered, driven back, slaughtered. Next morning, the dead and wounded were strewn over three-quarters of a mile. The Confederates stripped Shaw's body and threw it into a mass grave. When the Union forces finally captured Fort Wagner, the Army wanted to retrieve Shaw's body, but his family objected. They wanted him to remain with...
...less influential than Arnold Schoenberg's, it is no less important. BartÓk wrote music of irresistible power and drive, music that in its uncompromising frankness and depth of expression discomfited audiences used to the prettifications of romanticism. Like other great musical figures - Beethoven and Wagner come immediately to mind - BartÓk was a destroyer as well as a creator. Emerging from the 19th century Western European tradition, he changed it irrevocably...