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...than Harry Truman's Fair Deal, no more revolutionary than the teachings of Abraham Lincoln. It wasn't Marx and Lenin who advocated force, he said. No, indeed. If violence came as a result of what the party proposed to do, said Dennis, it would be the fault of "reactionary groups [who] try to stop the march of social progress...
...Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes." I suspect that the fanfare has been, at least in part, an attempt to cover its neglect of modern opera, for "Grimes" seems to be the only work in the current repertoire that is less than 30 years old. This is not wholly the fault of the Met, since it has staged several unsuccessful premieres in recent decades; the empty seats in the Opera House Thursday night showed that the responsibility also lies with the public. But the Met has not gone out of its conservative way to convince its audiences that important things have...
...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...
...cows had lost their pasture to government prospectors; they were thin with hunger. Lucien himself had not yet received a sou of the 16,000 francs yearly indemnitv promised him. Without compensation how could he buy a new pasture? His tiny wife Marguerite railed that it was all his fault in the first place. When the strangers came from Paris he had let them dig holes in the fields. She had seen Lucien also with a pick in hand. "What are you doing," she had called shrewishly, "looking for your fortune?" "Maybe," grinned Lucien. But the strangers never refilled...
...during the next few months--but it seems to exist chiefly because of its prettiness. The romance between Cable and Liat, which is handled quite remarkably up to the moment Cable begins to sing, loses a lot of its intensity by being interrupted for such a number. Perhaps the fault is more the singer's than the song's; William Tabbert does little more than put the right words onto the right notes. Or perhaps any song would be weak in that particular scene. At any rate, something is wrong with "Younger Than Springtime...