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Schedrin's lazy, impotent score is loutish when it is not downright sullen. The finale-in which the degenerate playwright Quilty scrambles around his mansion in a drugged stupor, stopping to pound out a few chords on his piano before Humbert Humbert (Per-Arne Wahlgren) shoots him-is a scene worthy of Shostakovich in his manic, trumpets-and-snare-drums mode, but all Schedrin can muster is forced-march noodlings. As for the vulgar libretto, Schedrin wrote it himself but neglected to secure rights from the Nabokov estate. The copyright problems were eventually sorted out with the stipulation that...
...ERIK WAHLGREN University of California Los Angeles...
Armed with this information, which less sophisticated scholars seem to have missed, Wahlgren besieged the farm. The Ohman sons, who are sick of the whole business, would not let him see the scrapbook or the encyclopedia, but he satisfied himself that Farmer Ohman really had both of them. Then he gumshoed around the neighborhood and found that Ohman, though uneducated in a formal sense, was a smart man who often expressed an urge to fool the scholars...
...Soon. After settling this critical point, Wahlgren sat down with a Swedish encyclopedia which was the duplicate of Farmer Ohman's. In it were four pages about runes, and he found to his delight that the information in them would have enabled Ohman to carve the inscription on the Kensington stone. Its language, he decided, was ordinary Swedish embellished with just those "linguistic petrifacts" (archaic- features) that Ohman could have found in his encyclopedia...
...came from Holvik's copy of the scrapbook. One erudite article in it, for instance, ends with the Sanskrit expression "AUM," an esoteric syllable meaning "power." Toward the end of the Kensington inscription is the word "AVM," which has long baffled scholars. Some thought it meant "Ave Maria." Wahlgren is sure that crafty old Farmer Ohman intended it as a learned pun, his way of having fun with the experts...