16—The Daily Collegian Monday, April 13, 1981
Price: a Wilde traveler
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Vincent Price
By ANDY LINKER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Last night Vincent Price was performing somewhere in
California. Saturday night he was in Schenectady. Friday
night, he played before a sold-out Artists Series audience in
Eisenhower Auditorium, and the night before that he was in
Fort Myers, Fla. And every place Vincent Price goes he takes
with him the philosophical wit and misfortunes of a man who
has been dead more than 80 years.
Every night in a different city, Price recreates Oscar Wilde,
the 19th-century playwright and conversationalist whose life
ended alone in a self-imposed exile in France.
Price has been portraying Wilde since January in screen
writer John Gay's one-man show "Diversions and Delights."
The tour includes 210 cities and it has already played in
Canada, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.
"This is the worse tour I've ever had in my life," Price said
backstage after the performance, "(but) . . . it's almost over."
Although the tour is long, Price said he enjoys playing
Wilde.
"I think what intrigues me about him is his wit," Price said.
"The comedians today are funny, but they are not witty.
"He never resorts to dirty words or double meanings. It is
pure wit. He is willing to take on all comers in all situations."
While Wilde was one of the leading playwrights of his era, he
was heavily ostracized and long remembered for his conviction
for sodomy.
Price said he had no trouble preparing for the foie. "It's
easy to do because more was written about Wilde than any
other author in the English language."
Because of Wilde's background, Price said, "Everybody
who ever met him took down everything he said. The act (the
play) is an absolute truth. You cannot play it technically. It has
to be emotional."
Price, 69, said it is not difficult to hide his age in portraying a
45-year old Wilde.
"He looked quite elderly when he died," Price said, noting
that the two years Wilde spent in prison probably contributed to
Wilde's condition.
"I'm old enough to bring it out without trying," Price said.
"Somebody once said, 'You should never play Juliet until
you're old enough to play the nurse.' If you've ever seen a
terribly young girl play Juliet, she doesn't know what it's about.
Most of the great Juliets have been women in their 305."
For half of Friday night's play, Price portrayed Wilde as an
humorist patterned after Wilde's American contemporary,
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Mark Twain. '' Becatige he is acting alone, Price has no supporting actors
"You couldn't have that (Wilde's seriousness in the play's from which to gauge his perfomace. But, Price does not rely :on
second half) without the character in the first half," Price said. his audience for feedback.
"He comes out as a stand-up comic ... to entertain you. That's "With an audience this big, you hear it (audience ria'ai6n)
his whole point. he says that he's coming here tonight to make a delayed, which makes it a little difficult. I've done &lot: L eif
little money. •
places in ,my home town (St. Louis), which has a musigal
Price said he believes there is a very close parallel between
Wilde and Twain.
theatre of 12,000. You time everything differently because tile
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"Asa matter of fact," Price said, "many of their remarks laughs go out and come back." ---
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are identical. People do think alike. There are an awful lot of And like the laughs, Price's Oscar Wilde comes back to play
Twain and Wilde expressions which are alike. I don't think they every night wherever that may be.
ever could have possibly heard them from each other."
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Wilde's delightful diversion
By ANDY LINKER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Comedy and tragedy two seem
ingly opposite words.
Without these words, however, you
cannot have humor. And without hu
mor, you cannot have 19th-tentury
playwright and conversationalist Os
car Wilde.
For a couple of hours Friday night
in Eisenhower Auditorium, rek
nowned actor Vincent Price molded
together comedy and tragedy to
breathe life into Wilde, who was more
famous for tragedy than his comedy.
Utilizing his talents to recreate
Wilde's wit, philosophy and misery in
screen play writer John Gay's one
man show "Diversions and De
lights," Price gave his audience a
feel for the controversy which sur
rounded Wilde an accused and
convicted sodomist who eventually
spent his latter years of life in prison.
In what was billed an evening in a
Paris concert hall with Sebastian
Melmoth (the pen name Wilde used in
France), no dimension of Wilde's life
was omitted. As Price's Wilde told
the audience, "I am yours for the
evening a towering scandal."
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Wilde's cynicism, which can be
interpreted as wit, was brought for
ward in the first half as Price, adopt
ing a Mark Twain-like delivery,
spared no member of the audience
from insult.
On women, Wilde said: "They can
talk brilliantly about Any subject
providing they know nothing about
it."
On honeymooning brides: "Every
American bride goes to the Niagra.
And the site of that waterfall must be
her second greatest disappoint
ment."
On literary peer George Moore: "I
can think of no other writer who leads
his readers. to the latrine then locks
them in."
On poetry: "There are two ways to
dislike poetry. One is to dislike it
naturally. Two is to like it ratio
nally."
On temperment: "I do believe
one's temper should be like Mr. Whis
tler's painting. It should be kept from
the public."
At the outset, Price came off as
slightly arrogant to his audience, but
apparently that was all part of Wild
e's often egotisticalpersonality.
"By the way," Price asked, "where is Schenectady?"
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"When .I arrived in your states,"
Wilde said during his tour of AMeri-
.can cities in the early 1880 s, "the first ;
person I met was a customs official.
He wanted to know what I had to
declare. I said, 'Only my genius.' "
Wilde's "tragedies" of his convic- ;
tion, inprisonment and subsequent
ailments were introduced in the first
half and expounded upon in the sec
ond. In his misery, Wilde left England
and had been living in a self-impoied
exile in Paris. ;
The play's only' weakness was its
abruptiness in transition from Wild
e's wit to his misfortunes.. Price did
not give his audience an opportunity
to adjust from the "comedy" to , the :1
"tragedy." This, however, is not un
common
in one-man perfomances
which try to capsulize one's life.
One-man shows have the tendency •
to be either very good (Hal HolbroOk
as Abraham Lincoln) or very bad (Ed
Nelson as Harry Truman). They are 11
successful only when the audience
fails to see the actor as an actor and
only concentrates on the character. 4
In "Diversions and Delights," Vin
cent Price may as well have sat with 4 , ..1
the rest of the audience. Friday night la
belonged to Oscar Wilde
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• By BECKY JONES
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Pulitzer prize-winning composer
Dominick Argento received enthu
siastic and well-deserved recogni
tion at an outstanding performance
of three of his works in Schwab
Auditorium Saturday night:
The works were as varied as the
mediums for which they were writ
ten, and the evening offered an inter:
esting blend . of light-hearted and
more somber music.
The first piece of the program was
a delightful programmatic work
called "Royal Invitation or Homage
,to the Queen of Tonga," performed
with precision by the Musica da
Camera, the University's chamber
orchestra.
A variety of coloristic techniques
worked together to bring scenes of
another place and,time alive for the
audience. The creative use of varied
'thtietdations, such as pizzicato and
staccato, made the lines bright and
lively.
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In addition, the prominence given
the wind soloists gave the chamber
orchestra a flurry of new sounds not
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nated group.
The precision of the performance
lent crisp clarity to the scenes of
each movement. Only a few flubs in
the winds, especially the horns,
flawed the even quality of the sound.
Especially delightful was the third
movement, which describes the fox
trot lessons of the Queen. The da
Camera played the movement with
a bouncy swing that further brought
the audience closer to the music.
The second work on the program
was "To Be Sung Upon the Water"
for soprano, clarinet and piano, per
formed by Trucilla Sabatino, Smith
Toulson and Lawrence Loeberon,
respectively.
After the vibrant, colorful perfor
mance of the "Royal Invitation," the
cycle of eight songs on poems by
William Wordsworth seemed dry by
comparison.
Ragtime classics
The delightful music of Mozart on Fifth filled the HUB
Ballroom Saturday night.
The young group of ilu;ee street musicians have an unusual
flair for presenting Scott Joplin, Glenn Miller, Beatles and
classical Mozart arrangements.
Although there were a few squeaks and squeals from the
band's reed instruments, the musicians successfully captivated
an audience of 150 who delighted in listening to a varity of
Joplin ragtime pieces '
And different styles of music they did play, as the group
slowed down from ragtime to Glenn Miller's "Moonlight
Serenade" and finished up with The Beatles' "When I'm Sixty
Four." -By Scott Fritsche
Although Sabatino had little prob
lem reaching the unusually high
notes required by the score, her
performance was uninspiring.
Even the audience seemed to get
increasingly restless during the
number.
The program closed with the
world premiere performance of
"Peter Quince at the Clavier" by the
Penn State Singers.
Although the style of this piece did
not seem as easy for the audience to
relate to as the "Royal Invitation,"
they responded enthusiastically to
precision performance of Brown's
well-trained group.
Especially _outstanding was the
dynamic control of the singers,
which gave each line distinguishable
shape and form.
Overall, the performances made
for an enjoyable evening of music
that showed contemporary compos
ers can reach the hearts of their
public.
Symphonic Band sunny and bright
By REBECCA CLARK
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Though the weather was dreary and
somber yesterday, the inside of Eisen
hower Auditorium was bright and alive
with the sounds of the Symphonic Blue
Band.
Under Dr. Ned C. Deibl's direction, the
band skillfully performed an exciting
and enjoyable concert. With spirit and
professionalism, the band performed
music by composers such as Shostako
vich, Persichetti, Offenbach, and Alex
ander.
• Pieces like "Jubilee," "Chimes of Lib
erty," and "Colossus of Columbia" were
performed with ease and grace.
Throughout the concert, one might have
forgotten that the band members were
students for they played with such exper
tise.
In his usual magnificent style, Deihl
directed with skill and magical emotion,
guiding the band through each number
with care and poise.
Flutist Peggy Shipley (12th-music edu
cation) performed a solo, "Night Solilo
quy," and though her performance was
good, it was much better when the other
band members played along with her as
often her notes were flat and dull.
Trombonist Erik Edvar also delivered
a solo performance during the three and
a half hour concert. Unemotionally and
spiritlessly, he performed "Morceau
Symphonique" playing the number
with little or no magic at all.
Overall, the two soloisis did not con
tribute much to the concert. But fortuna
tely, the band helped to ease the dullness
of the their lackluster contributions.
The band as a whole performed an
extremely outstanding concert. With
each performance, the Symphonic Blue
Band gets better and better.
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