Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hindemith's performance on the vielle, it was as masterly as might be expected from a man who can play every instrument in the orchestra and who was once considered one of the world's leading viola virtuosos (as a soloist and a member of the Amar-Hindemith Quartet...
Although Hindemith rarely gets a chance these days to play the role of Compleat Musician, he manages to keep briskly occupied. Since leaving the U.S., where he taught at Yale, he has lived with his wife in Switzerland ("We live in the mountains; where, is a military secret"). He teaches at the University of Zurich, retires from the world for five months each year to compose. Among the works proposed: an orchestral piece for the opening of Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Next summer he will conduct the Santa Fe Opera in three performances of his opera News...
Before she arrived to do the play, American audiences were vaguely familiar with Joan Plowright as the apparent choice to be the next wife of Sir Laurence Olivier. Now they know her as an actress worthy of the part. Daughter of a Lincolnshire newspaper editor, she got her impulse toward the stage from her mother, who as a girl ran away three times to become an actress but "was fetched back three times because it wasn't considered respectable." Joan had her first acting experience with her mother's amateur theatrical group...
Winning her first big role in 1955 as a cabin boy in Orson Welles's production of Moby Dick, she later became an original member of the English Stage Company, which gave her a range of experience from Wycherley to Ionesco, from youth to old age: she once played a 17-year-old and a 94-year-old in the same performance ("It's easier to play a 94-year-old than a so-year-old when you're 25"). It was her work in the company that brought her to the attention of Olivier...
...this gaudy material Playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee worked up a courtroom melodrama (TIME, May 2, 1955) that stayed in style for two full seasons on Broadway-partly because, like the trial, it was sure-shot theater, mostly because Paul Muni, who played Darrow, developed his role into an unforgettable set piece of libertarian tirade. Thanks to Producer-Director Stan ley Kramer, Inherit the Wind has now been made into a movie that retains al most nothing of the play but its flashy, trashy script...