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Though The Crucible is a foul deed, the New England Conservatory Opera Department and the Conservatory Symphony Orchestra gave life to parts of this performance, its New England premier. In Act I, Tituba (Sandra Provost) made the most of describing her encounter with the devil. In Act III, Abigail Williams (Linda Phillips) made the court room scene, in which demons appeared to her, fun; a dull, dull text quashed her immediately. Given fatuous parts, many of the other singers (Mary Liverman, Ivan Oak, John Ring, Mary Lou Sullivan, and Robert Donaldson) strove mightily to overcome them. The set was imaginative...
...Crucible, built on the Salem witch trials, deals with the conscience of a community stirred to a storm of hatred and terror by the sexual fantasies of Abigail Williams, a wanton teen-age Pilgrim ("Come to me now," she sings, "as you came before, like some great stallion wildly pantin' "). Ward, expertly assisted by Librettist Bernard Stambler, retained the shape of the Miller play almost intact-and also much of the language...
...main strength of the score is in the vocal parts -vigorous, resourceful, utilizing melody as a dramatic weapon. Among the high points: the soaring hymn, Jesus, My Consolation, in which the town's elders celebrate the breaking of "Lucifer's bond," while in the loft above them Abigail joins in with her own acerbic, ironic cry of joy: I Open to Thee, O Jesus...
Still another series of The Adams Papers, according to Lyman Butterfield, lecturer on History and Editor of the series, is now in active production. This is the Adams Family Correspondence, running continuously from the courtship letters of John Abegail Adams in 1762 to the death in 1989 of another Abigail, the wife of Charles Francis Adams. The family correspondence is expected to run to some 20 volumes...
...editors guess that there may be 100 volumes to be mined out of the varied writings of the Adams family, although they have set themselves the cut-off date of 1889, the year of the death of Abigail Brooks Adams, wife of Charles Francis Adams, who was Minister to the Court of St. James's during the Civil War, and the last of old John's grandsons. This will exclude the contributions of Historian Henry Adams (The Education of Henry Adams), the most elegant of family stylists. But, given the indefatigable energy of the Adamses down to this...