MEMORABLE SELECTIONS from CURRENT REVIEWS CULLED from OUR CLIPPING SERVICES German-To-English Translations by Lys Symonette and William Madison
MEMORABLE SELECTIONS FROM CURRENT REVIEWS CULLED FROM OUR CLIPPING SERVICES German-to-English Translations by Lys Symonette and William Madison LONDON SINFONIETTA: "BEANFEST:' 16 APRIL 1985 Although the performance of Di,e sieben Todsunden was rather conventional (the Anna l was weak; the male quartet was excel . So how is [ the Mahagonny Songspie/ ] to be put across to a lent), the audience rewarded it with its heartiest applause; the first 1985 British audience? David Alden, who produced, and David half comprised the bitter satire of the Requiem and the evil bur Fielding, who designed, had no doubts at all. Lots of crude sexual lesque of "Pantomime I.'' jokes (an inflatable lifesize rubber doll, for instance), lots of din, a pair of giant anti-Thatcher posters with movable pound and dollar Elisabeth Bauschmid signs to replace the lady's eyes, [ conductor] Simon Rattle with a Suddeutsche Zeitung toy rocket pointlessly strapped to his back, lots of repetition, and let Munich the music shift for itself. 12 June 1985 The repetition was the most startling element, and in a way the most interesting. A dispirited woman, with a child on a table beside "NEW YORK PRAISES GISELA MAY" her, began the proceedings by intoning "I like it. .. I like it. .. I like it With stormy applause and cries of bravo the audience of the Per ..." one or two hundred times. Though I didn't count, I don't think 1 forming Arts Center of the State University of New York at Pur exaggerate; if I were simply to transcribe her part on this page, my chase honored the actress and singer Gisela May.
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