Word: monodramas
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This is a monodrama artfully pieced together from the 19th century poet's poems, letters and reclusive life. Dickinson's was an inward journey, an intrepid exploration of the heart, the mind and the soul. The only tracks she left were her finest poems...
Levister: Manhattan Monodrama (Debut LP). In this first collection of his short pieces, says youthful (30) Manhattan Composer Alonzo Levister, he was influenced by ''blues, Bartok, Bach and Baptist shouting," but the sound that comes out is clearly his own. The mood is wistful, the emotion wire-taut, the rhythms occasionally splintered. Most successful: Black Swan, a brooding, velvet-piled excursion into the mind and style of Trumpeter Miles Davis...
Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos takes a special pride in performing new music-and old music that is still new to the U.S. Last fall he gave the U.S. its first performance of Atonalist Arnold Schoenberg's 1909 "monodrama," Erwartung (Expectation), and his Manhattan audience seemed to find it considerably less noisy and strident than expected. Columbia Records stepped in quickly, got Mitropoulos, his New York Philharmonic-Symphony and Soprano Dorothy Dow to record it. Erwartung's one-act story is somber, not to say macabre: a woman sings her innermost thoughts as she goes to a woodland tryst, stumbles...
...alone; her husband was relentless until just before her death, when he allowed their son to visit her. Out of the tragedy of their life, Meredith fashioned the stylized poetic sequence, Modern Love, fifty 16-line sonnets of what Sassoon calls "highly perfected workmanship, constructed as a finely woven monodrama, and abounding in memorable passages and variety of mood." Poet Sassoon had thought that it must have taken him at least three years to finish the work; to his astonishment, he learned when he began his biography that Meredith had written it in three months...
...graceful John Bovingdon is no ballet dancer; an uneasy press has generally described him as a religious, rhythmic, or "monodrama" dancer. Harvard-man Bovingdon (1915, magna cum laude), the baldest dancer since Harald Kreutzberg, toured Russia and the Orient in the 1920s and '30s, wearing a long beard, knickerbockers and sandals...