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...next performed the world premiere of conductor James Yannatos' Prieres dans L'Arche, a setting of four poems by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, scored for a small orchestra and soprano. In each poem an animal characterizes himself in a prayer ending with "Ainsi soit-il." Yannatos does not portray the animals, but the attitudes they represent. The animals' feelings are summarized by their way of saying amen, and the score provides the interpretation which the printed page leaves to the reader. For instance, the cat, aided by a marvellously meowing orchestra, says amen in smug anticipation of God's curse...
...OXFORD HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, by Samuel Eliot Morison. The historian-admiral draws heavily on his earlier works to portray the sweep of the history of all American peoples. His perspective on recent history is naturally close-up and highly personal, but the book is admirable and solidly readable nonetheless...
Only with the British does Culpepper give his cast definite characters to portray. But I wonder just what purpose the farcial staff conference serves. It is the only enjoyable scene, but how it relates to the rest of the play isn't clear...
...cool world that Shirley Clarke attempts to portray in these incidents exists for sure only in her own imagination...
...enough, Nureyev has been further blessed with a classic partner-Dame Margot Fonteyn, long the reigning ballerina of the Western world. Since they teamed up on the stage of the Royal Ballet three seasons ago, a mystique has grown up around them that rivals the most ethereal fantasies they portray onstage. They have about them all the magic makings for a fairy-tale romance. He is 27, a moody, mysterious Tartar bristling with savage charm. She is 45, an alabaster beauty of elegant refinement. He is the glittering young prince in the first bloom of creative life...