Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opera, its last professional U.S. production, seven years ago, had been decidedly unsuccessful. Yet when the Minneapolis Center Opera Com pany presented Carl Orff's The Wise Woman and the King at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater last week, it proved to be one of the most engaging productions of the U.S. opera season...
...Wise Woman falls somewhere be tween opera and Broadway musical. Adapted from a fairy tale, it is Grimm for grownups, a Rabelaisian romp peopled with a thieving mule driver, an irascible king, a too-wise queen, and a trio of drunken tramps who keep the action crackling along at a raucous, laugh-a-minute pace. The score is uniquely Orff-primitive rhythms and simple, rustic melodies, punctuated with fanfares and percussive outbursts. Orff, 69, Germany's most famed contemporary composer, believes that "melody and speech belong together," and in his Singspiel style he strives for a marriage in which...
...which run from earthy paganism to ethereal mysticism and back again, with lots of love, lust, violence and cruelty in between." To lend more punch to the love and lust departments, Balk deftly reworked several of the couplets, whose stiffly literal translation he believes is the major reason why Wise Woman previously failed in the U.S. Thus...
Thomas, a native Mississippian and graduate of the Ole Miss law school, went on to criticize Mississippi's own courts for archaic customs and "adherence, by acquiescence, inertia or other wise, to the 'sporting theory of justice,' which makes justice a game instead of a quest for truth." He even urged the state to emulate federal courts and catch up with other states by approving modern pretrial discovery techniques and summary judgments (where there are no real factual issues) "for the removal of sham actions from the trial calendars." If Thomas surprised his listeners, who included...
Sylvia tries to help during family collisions but is rebuffed. She feels sorry and confused and so does the reader. Then, with nearly 200 pages turned, comes the sermon. It is a fine sermon, delivered by a wise old Scots preacher. on the folly of hoping to win God's grace by heaping up worldly goods or worldly good works. "Aye, Annie," the preacher mimics, "I've been aye doing so muckle guid, I've noe had time to set me down and mind...