February 8, 1946 THE COMMONWEAL 431 The Opera Season Old Men Are Funny <f"p\ON PASQUALE" is based on the assumption *-J that old men who want love are naturally comic, much in the same way...
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February 1, 1946 THE COMMONWEAL 407 The Opera Season A Question of Clothes IT HAD never occurred to me to question the costumes worn by the singer who performed the role of Don Giovanni,...
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January 25, 1946 THE COMMONWEAL 383 The Opera Season Music in the Air 'T* HE Metropolitan is full of strange caprices. A few A Seasons ago, Bach's "Phoebus and Pan" was given in a set...
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358 The Opera Season Looking Backward HOW MANY changes in musical taste one makes in a lifetime I cannot possibly say. I know that mine have been many and that I shall have more. Certainly...
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Books of the Week Meet Your Ancestors: A Biography of Primitive Man. Roy Chapman Andrews. Viking. $3.00. THE WORK purports to be a streamlined version of "what is known to date from actual...
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