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...mood of the Congress was of a Communist leadership feeling itself beset and bellicose. As an illusion of parliamentary government in action, the People's Congress was, of course, pure sham. But as a kind of distorted fun-house mirror of the condition of China after ten years of Communist rule, the "deliberations" of the Second National People's Congress had their uses...
Nature was Bonnard's intimate tutor, but no vain one; he never held a mirror up to her. What he strove for and kept reaching for was the evanescent sense of revelation in nature-tremulous and transient as a rainbow...
...wanes the six decide to compose an opera based on the afternoon's talk, and the Countess is finally left with the agonizing task of choosing between Poetry and Music- Poet and Composer. In a gently ironic ending she looks deep into her mirror and finds that she can make no choice-her two loves...
...fascinating works. Too static for the stage, it is studded with passages of surpassing orchestral and vocal beauty: the sweetly melancholy string sextet that serves as an overture; the delicately interlaced trio in which Musician, Poet and Countess comment on the Poet's sonnet; the Countess' hushed mirror monologue at the close, with its spun-silver vocal tracery. The performers-notably sopranos Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Anna Moffo, baritones Hans Hotter and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau-sing superbly under Conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch. In its flashing orchestral coloration and its soaring vocal lines, Capriccio is an echo of some...
Playwright Wincelberg may not write like a champion, but he obviously believes in handicapping himself like one. What keeps his melodramatic gamble from bankruptcy is the elemental tension of man against man, as it is reflected in the mirror-simple playing of Ben Piazza, as the American, and the emotionally prismatic portrayal of the Japanese by old (69) Silent Screen Star Sessue Hayakawa...