Word: levins
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Critical articles in the magazine are by Associate Professor Theodore Spenser, Hi Simons, John Finch, Morton D. Zabel, Howard Baker, and Delmore Schwartz. There are also statements about the poet by Harry Levin, instructor in English, and by Associate Professor Matthiessen. A complete review of the magazine appears on the editorial page...
...Music, the young, hard-working Philadelphia Opera Company hit the stride of its third season with a performance in English of the best-known Czech opera: Bedŕich Smetana's The Bartered Bride. Managed by tall, lean C. David Hocker, musically directed by short, swart Sylvan Levin, the Philadelphia troupe has 22 singers, average age about 27, all but one homegrown. The simple fooleries of The Bartered Bride, set to simple, polka-dotted tunes, showed off some notable young talent: Basso Luke Matz (music supervisor in the Unionville, Pa. public school), as a jovial village marriage broker; Soprano...
Enemies of opera in English often argue that most translations are bad. For his Bartered Bride Director Levin took a standard translation, freely paraphrased it, so that the marriage broker sang, "I know a honey with lots of money" instead of the conventional translationese, "One I know who has money galore...
...Madison, Wis.; Kenneth D. Johanson '43, Everett, Wash.; Robert L. Judell '42, Milwaukee, Wis.; Harold Katz '43, Terre Haute, Ind.; William F. Ketchum '41, Evanston, III.; Frank R. Lacy, Jr. '43, Dubuque, Ia.; Newbold R. Landon '42, Baltimore, Md.; Walter J. Lear '43, Miami Beach, Fla.; Robert W. Levin '42, Portland, Ore.; Walter S. Long, Jr. '43, Mayfield, Ky.; Horace G. Lunt, 2d. '41, Denver, Colo.; James B. McCandless '42, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Charles M. McCroskey '43, Kansas City, Kans.; Donald F. McDonald '43, Davenport...
...asking from a lot of critics is that they try to be a little more fair in their judgments. They would do well to listen to Woody Herman and Charlie Barnet, before they dismiss them, by saying with amused tolerance: "It's pretty good, but it's commercial." Mike Levin, who wrote the best swing column Harvard ever saw, harped on this for two years, for all the good...