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From Tennyson's “ldylls of dentally, did the: translation of “the: King." Malory's “Morte - Wagner's book. 4'Arthur” or even Mark Twain's Both Mr. Hoffman and Mr, Busch think the music and the religious and philosophic ideas in “Parsifal” are much more

sacred goblet in “A Connecticut Yankee,” most of us know something of the Grail legend. f In the Jegend, only the knight who was pure in heart and deed | could hope to find the Grail and, having found it, absorb

fred Lord Tennyson have given us a practical British slant on | the whole matter, Wagner gives us a Mystical German version. refined from medieval German and French sources. To complicate matters, Wagner has besn accused of introducing into his libretto some notions from the pessimistic Philosophy of Arthur Schopen- ; Le. : MESSRS. HOFFMAN BUSCH will clear up some com-

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» » » THEY'RE UP AGAINST a kind of “Hamlet” problem, and they're solving it in probably the most sensible way. Mr. Busch, ths remarkable ex-GI who works as stage director for the Stockholm Royal - Opera, back from Bweden a set of doll-house models for the mobile steps, stages and altars. = AS in last years IU opera productions, drapes, lighting and movable step and runway units will take care of the scenery. In the Act 1 sequence where the principals walk from the forest to the Montsalvat castle, Wagner wanted moving #cenery. That might have been all right for Bayreuth in 1882, just as the shade -roller canvas backdrop for the Roman arena treadmill chariot race in Lew Wallace's ¢ “Ben Hur” still seemed okay on the American stage before World War 1, “We want to get away from the heavy Bayreuth tradition. We want to use as little scenery as possible,” Mr, Busch says. Mr, Hoffman adds, “We hope to make “Parsifal’ an annual event at Indiana University. It is the greatest modern religious

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