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Maryse Carlin; harpsichord music of Morley, Farnaby, Bach, Couperin, and Scarlatti; Eliot House Library; 8:30 p.m.; free...
...splendid Lady Churchill," he said, adding generously, "Had we a greatly corrupted great man like Churchill, I would come back and live in Britain, pay taxes and if necessary, sweep the streets." ∎ "These days nobody expects Miss World to be a blue-eyed virgin," said Julia Morley of the British organization, Mecca Ltd., that runs the annual contest. She should know. Last year's Miss World, Marjorie Wallace of Indiana, was dethroned by Mecca after 14 weeks because her busy love life was grabbing the headlines. This year the judges went out of their way to avoid looking...
Major Barbara is one of Shaw's best plays--about a Salvation Army major who discovers that as long as everything else gets its value in a market economy, salvation will too. The major's father is such a powerful character (remember Robert Morley in the movie?) that he runs away with Shaw's message a couple of times, and there are also a few great setpieces, notably the almost-conversion of Bill Walker. As a curtain-raiser, there's Icarus' Mother, by Sam Shepard who's a more or less experimental playwright, and the director is Robert Chapman, professor...
...Actor Robert Morley, British Airways' exuberant television salesman of England's illimitable charms ("We'll take good care of you"), wryly advised his countrymen to enjoy the shortened work week while it lasts. "For years now, the planners have been assuring us that before long a man would not be required to work more than two or three days a week," Morley wrote in a letter to the London Times. "Now that this blissful state of affairs has arrived, no one seems to relish the fact. Everyone sits around working out on used envelopes how much less...
...first half of the program was the better performed. The Collegium Musicum began with motets by Morley and Weelkes, two luminaries of the Golden Age of English music. The Collegium sang very well under the direction of F. John Adams. The group has a thin but clean, fresh sound which slightly resembles the sound of a good boy choir. Attacks were crisp and the contrapuntal textures--never too complex in this kind of music--were very clear. Parts were well balanced and the pacing energetic...