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...voice in the musical sense of the word. His singing is not a flow of melody, but a strange string of sounds that are sometimes shrill, sometimes whining, sometimes rasping, like the sound of a cello bow scratching an unwilling string, but most often pitched in a vibrant falsetto of unworldly intensity. It is not the sort of voice that one instantly enjoys. It most definitely has to grow on the listener...
...Bach's Sonata in G. Performers who had been worried about the open theater's acoustics soon learned to forget their fears. The Romans had staged dramas, musical contests and water ballets at Caesarea, and the ancient impresarios knew their business. In the slow second movement, sustained, vibrant notes, clear and fragile as crystal, rippled to the topmost rows of the semicircular theater. Not a nuance was lost to the wind; it was as if Casals were playing in his own study...
...chants in Greek and uses body English to underscore, but not undercut, the action. In their pleated rust-brown gowns with cowled headdress, the women often resemble the caryatids on the portico of the Acropolis' Erechtheum. The modern Greek rendering of the play has a venomous and vibrant intimacy that the English translation, transmitted at the City Center on transistor earphones, fails to reflect. In a cast that achieves a triumph of ensemble playing, Clytemnestra is coolly reptilian, and Aegisthus is a strutting upstart of self-aggrandizement who yet meets his implacable doom with dignity...
...treacly success story of the sort I had hoped not to meet again in this journal. Emil Frankel's "Crisis in Republican Tradition" is a bizarre blending of truism, commonplace, and political myth appropriately flavored with citations from Russell Kirk and Goals For Americans. "Dynamic energy," Frankel insists, "Vibrant center. Creative traditionalism," and concludes that "It is the danger of depersonalization and conformity which must be fought in out society." I still don't know what liberal Republicans are. If they are simply a Crolyite fan club, why doesn't Frankel (or someone else) say so? Finally, five books...
Looking as vibrant as in her portrait by Marcel Vertes, Lily Pons, now a Dallas resident, essayed a summer comeback at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. One critic praised the 57-year-old coloratura's "firm sense of rapport with the crowd," but the Times, although noting "flashes of the great stylist of yesteryear," contented itself with the comment that "no orchestra could be expected to follow a singer through quite as many adventures with pitch as Miss Pons encountered...