... for the Mkbegotten came, as has as Con Melody in Eugene O’Neill’s A spare us the near self-lionizing of A Long been much written of, with his emergence Touch of the Poet has taken on the ap Day’s Journey Into Night. Con Melody is from a personal hell of depression, pearance of a mighty thing, wreathed...

... of the poetry; ironically, while it still needs better concepts and overworked metaphors, second act, is already a verbal aria in words than the old melodies ever com• Buchner's language feels what it pictures, Buchner's play; perhaps this is why Creagh manded, it is also able to convey the effect...

... respective word.) And the larks they sang melodious, NARRATOR: (Pointing to picture of naked couple.) And we And the larks they sang melodious, make children. And the larks they sang melodious, MEN: Children...

.... It is at once melodically simple, harmonically uncomplicated, and structurally ingenious. Its chord changes fit the mechanical capability of a barrel organ; the repetitive rhythmic and intervallic patterns of the melody shape it memorably; its combination...

..., if you’ve ever touched his work, you can’t escape him. What does he give you as a director beyond his own plays? He gives you a special consciousness of language: currently I’m directing a play by Bernard-Marie Koltès. The play was originally written in French, which has its own melody. As Poles we...

... exposure of black the melodies are traditional ones, Bertha Egnos is ghetto life to many whites. k’i72g Kong’s book, lyrics, credited with composing the original music. Some and direction were by whites, but in recent years of the dances are also traditional, but the program blacks themselves have...

...—but then, for whatever reason, even he seemed to tire of the eter- nal disconnect between singing and acting. In the long run, minimalism didn’t really offer an effective theatrical idiom. Its clean, objective lines, and avoidance of ornamentation or any melody...

... this melody. eurydice It can be interesting to see if other He hums a bar of melody. people—like dead people who wrote books— agree or disagree with what you think. eurydice I’m bad at remembering melodies. Why don’t...

... took the melodies for her own songs will black man walks into a bar. The a coca-cola.”Bynum to Jeremy in Seth always be there, just as the blues has A words “for whites only” do not Holly’s boarding house. “You ought to always been there waiting for the people hang over the neon...

... for an American musical: first serious, then vibrating with absurd rhyme patterns, the lyrics even show an occasional dead-pan self mockery, such as in this recogni- tion duet set to a pallid, purposely spiritless melody: note: Copyright 0...

... vitality, if not intellectuality. There is a good deal less to be said about Irving Berlin, musically, and yet more to be said for the sheer singability of his melodies and the nationalism of his notions. It took someone of Berlin's musical nai'vetd in an immigrant...

... didn't use the melody Thomas A. Arne composed for the Drury Lane Tempest, 1746). Titania borrowed lines from a song in Henry Vlll (II I .i), "Orpheus with his lute made trees." Among the mortal lovers' songs, Lysander sang to Helena six lines of Dumane's sonnet...

... is a pretense of nobility on kind of country breakdown. He doubles the melody account of its height; the fourth is a follower with his voice. He stops, puts the guitar aside, without a will of its own; the pinky finger: stands up, takes off the rubber band, slide...

... in. tell you, in the audience: Now it’s time for the lang In this play, I identify with the guy who beautiful melody that will make you cry. Here’s disappeared...

... the actors do on stage before and during the improvisations. There were improvised ten-minute operas, foursong Broadway musicals, four-scene drama festivals, foreign film festivals, television shows, pantomimed stories, a roster that numbered into the hundreds. And no two lines, lyrics or melodies...

...Jack Zipes © 2003 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2003 Thomas Ahrens and Regine Seidler in Grips Theatre’s Melodys Ring , Berlin, 2000. Photo: David Baltzer Jack Zipes Political Children’s Theater in the Age of Globalization Thirty years ago I went...

.... The verses of 'ah non credea' in La Sonnambufa, though of little interest to read, do exactly what they should, suggest to Bellini one of the most beautiful melodies ever written, and then leave him free to write it. The verses which the librettist...

...Mei-Ling Cheng Copyright © THEATER 1988 1988 personal freedom is not enough. not really listen to what the words, the very culture generates its own In Joe nLrner’s Come and Gone rhythms and the melodies of Levee’s myths and superstitions, taboos Bynum tells...

.... I have a special sensitivity to sound. This is not a matter of musical education; it depends on the ability to listen to melody and rhythm. Each...

... that oncc gavc them meaning. on the table handing down the line verses of a cross between a gymnast and a spider wartime melodies, beautifully sung a cappella. monkey. His pcrformance was highly There is no break in the two hours of perfor- energized but controlled, full of subtle mance...