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Levy, 34, the son of a Passaic, N.J., candy-store owner, seems to be a composer in search of a style; the opera, his first full-length effort, has some swatches of straight classical writing, some Webern, some Stravinsky, some Britten. As a result, the operatic version of Mourning emerges as a compelling drama with polished incidental music. Last week, after two Mourning performances, Levy was busy cutting the three-hour opera by about 20 minutes. It will take more than emergency surgery and fine stagecraft to save a score that was dead to begin with...
...Thornton Wilder's total literary output is small-six novels, four full-length plays. But if it is not a three-foot shelf, it bears witness to an original mind and a remarkable skill-The Skin of Our Teeth, Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey are genuine American classics...
...humor and ice water in his veins. But neither was the case. Witness the day that he was sitting in the office of a bureau chief when the door burst open and a member of the staff came whooping in, bottle in hand, tripped on the sill and fell full-length in front of the Editor in Chief. The bureau chief explained to his startled boss that the young man was celebrating the birth of a son. Harry started to laugh and finally said: "Well, aren't you going to give us a drink?" It turned into a fine...
Boldly, he choreographed "total theater," in which a work was not "evaluated solely on the intricacy of its movements but on its overall theatrical impact." His first full-length ballet was a total-theater version of The Three Musketeers, a romp-and-stomp spectacle in which the Danish swashbucklers made Douglas Fairbanks look like a party poop. Later, he enlivened and internationalized his programs with Afternoon of a Faun by America's Jerome Robbins, Card Game by South Africa's John Cranko, Aimez-vous Bach by Canada's Brian MacDonald, and Agon by Denmark's First...
...first Peale relied principally on his youngest brother, James, to aid him in his flourishing portrait studio: C. W. did the full-length oils; James specialized in precise but ethereal miniatures. Then James's younger daughter, Miriam, came along to become the U.S.'s first professional woman painter. Six of Charles Willson's children died in infancy, but among the survivors, ambitiously christened for the Renaissance greats, were Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian and Raphaelle. Both Rembrandt and Raphaelle went into the family business. Rembrandt traveled extensively in Europe, acquiring a glossy, Continental technique, became highly successful and portrayed...