Word: moiseiwitsch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage twenty-five centuries ago but what they saw in the world and the cosmos as well. The masks of the actors bear a bizarre and wholly appropriate resemblance to the grotesque faces of the magnified reptiles and insects seen in the Brattle's introductory short subject. Tanya Moiseiwitsch has provided lighting, costumes, and a set too stark ever to suggest some transcendent tempering of the harsh natural order of things. And Yeats' translation of the chorus' last lines--"Call no man fortunate that is not dead./The dead are free from pain"--crystallizes the pessimistic fatalism and brooding sense...
...lines; Eileen Herlie is suitably fluttery as a milliner; and Arthur Hill and Robert Morse are expertly naive as the two clerks. The settings are generous in number (four) but deficient in imagination--only in the last, a living room of riotiously poor taste, does designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch make the most of her opportunities...
...Benno Moiseiwitsch, 65, appears in Carnegie Hall to play a program of piano classics (Bach-Liszt, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann...
Instead of shrinking from the play's preposterous involvements and broadly comic scenes. Director Guthrie and his cast seize them, hug them, and waltz them right into the present. The transformation is aided by brilliant modern costumes, both Voguish and roguish, designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch; Shakespeare in tails seems no more anachronistic than Shaw in a toga, and at times quite as cynical. The play's "Florentine Widow" becomes a wonderful old madam catering to the occupation forces; Helena's choosing a husband is turned into a charming kind of debutante cotillion; and the scene in which...
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Benno Moiseiwitsch; Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent; Victor). One of the new, low-priced "Bluebird Classics," Victor's answer to the increasingly successful cut-rate labels. There are no program notes, but the performance is excellent, and there is little sacrifice in the quality of recorded sound...