Word: montagues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grimes" is not a very good argument for opera in English, and it cannot fall back on the translation excuse. The fault lies with librettist Montagu Slater. He doesn't seem to think in musical terms, so that there is a lot of pretty tedious recitative, much of which is superfluous. The verbosity has apparently proved too much for Britten, for his music, though following thought and mood, does not fit the words very skillfully. This failing was exaggerated Thursday night by poor diction on the part of both soloists and chorus...
Balfour, Lloyd George, Lord Robert Cecil, Leopold Amery and others helped him to hammer out the terms of the Balfour Declaration which promised to help the Jews establish a national home in Palestine. His enemies were chiefly the English assimilationist Jews, led by Lord Edwin Montagu. Says Weizmann: "There cannot be the slightest doubt that without outside interference-entirely from Jews -the draft would have been accepted . . . substantially as we submitted...
Crude but Sympathetic. Peter Grimes is no conventional operatic hero. Britten found him in a poem written by Parson Poet George Crabbe (1754-1832) and added a few hints of Freud. Crabbe's Grimes was an uncouth and unsympathetic ruffian; to Britten and Librettist Montagu Slater he is still crude but somehow sympathetic-a character who, by his uncontrollable rages, continually puts himself at swords'-points with society, which Britten represents with the massive chorus. Sings Peter Grimes: "They listen to money, these Borough gossips. I listen to courage and fiery visions...
Divorce Revealed. Lady Edward Montagu, fortyish; from the Duke of Manchester's second son, gadabout Lord Edward Eugene Fernando Montagu, 41, who at one time or another has been deckhand, hobo, cab driver, hot-dog vendor, U.S. Army private; after nine years (no children); in Manhattan...
...When F.D.R. got ready to fire Dean Acheson, then Under Secretary of the Treasury and now Under Secretary of State, he called him "a lightweight." He always referred to Montagu Norman, bearded, longtime Governor of the Bank of England, as "Old Pink-Whiskers...