Eastman School of Music - Score Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Fiftieth Anniversary Dreams In Eastmans Fiftieth Anniversary year came the re-opening of the newly refur- bished Eastman Theatre. This has been the home of the Eastman School Gpgfa ns for many years, and many of the greatest operas of the mas- ter-composers have been produced with brilliance there. With so much attention on the school and the theatre this year, an opera had to be chosen with total audi- what better choice than an opera based on Shakespeares fantast- ical blend of fairyland with the human world in A Midsummer Nightg Theatre productio ence appealp and Dream , music bv Beniamin Britten. Thomas Struthers' scenery, as usual, was exquisite and transported the audi- ence into the heart of fairvlandg an enchanted forest. A life-size tree was an inte- gral part of the main set and more than once my heart skipped a beat as Puck an impish fairy aide character, went scampering up into its branches, or when he flew through the air rigged in a nearly invisible harness. Once, however, his aerial acro- batics were curtailed when the power driving his flying-harness stopped and, after a beautiful take-off, he was left dangling in mid-air and mid-stage. Another sur- prise was connected with the fog machine. In this instance, the fog machine literal- ly lost control of itself and began belching forth fog at an incomprehensible rate so that in a matter of seconds, not only could the audience not see the stage, but Sing- ers a few inches apart could not see one another. All mishaps aside though, the opera was a great success and from the size and response of the audience, it was as much fun for them as it was for us. Iudy Dickinson f N 58

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