This listing is for Lyric Opera Of Chicago Claudia Cassidy 1979 Hardcover Book.
Authors: Claudia Cassidy, Saul Bellow, Carol Fox, R.D. Scudellari
Publisher: The Opera; R.R. Donnelly, First Edition (January 1, 1979)
Language: English
Hardcover: 233 pages
ISBN-10: 0960353801
ISBN-13: 978-0960353804
Condition: Very Good, No Dust Jacket
What Claudia Cassidy did was to create a real feeling of excitement to the opera. She was there on the scene for many productions of the Lyric and showed that she knew her stuff. The photos are good and there is even an introduction by Saul Bellow, who quotes Cassidy as saying, "Without the Lyric, Chicago would be underprivileged. A city is more than tall buildings, crowded streets, and in our case a magnificent lakefront." Saul Bellow says that Cassidy was not stingy with metaphors and about Mozart's _The Magic Flute_ she rhapsodizes that it was above all human Mozart, filled with joy and sorrow, innocence and evil, generosity and greed, ennobled by the eternal striving to reach from darkness to light." Bellow notes drily that, "Journalists seldom speak of 'ennoblement' in the papers, but Miss Cassidy has established her right to the high tone. She speaks of Bartoletti's orchestra as darkly beautiful and menacing. She speaks of "feathery" coloraturas, of di Stefano's "molten glow," and "blandishing talents," of Bjoerling's "piercing sweetness," and eulogizes Maria Callas as often as she mentions her. She remembers richly and seldom indulges in gossip." Bellow praises the work of Carol Fox (who at age 28 was the first impresario of The Lyric) and notes that Carol Fox, Jane Addams of Hull-House and Harriet Monroe of Poetry Magazine will be remembered as one of Chicago's greatest women. Bellow concludes that "there is not a touch of malice anywhere in this chronicle. Miss Cassidy's devotion to opera is far too pure and wholehearted for that." This text is a bargain and a slice of Chicago's Cultural history.
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