The computer works again.
Not much YET on the AEROS front.
Meanwhile "Earl" has changed the flight schedules for some OH! artists.
But even so 'Tales of Hoffmann' WILL go into rehearsal, as planned.
On the HGO side we welcomed the new and old crop of Studio artists - some already making names for themselves. Some just in fromSanta Fe, Wolftrap and such summer festivals which are still abundant. At last count 4 singers at Wolftrap hailed from Texas among them 3 from HGO Studio, Nathaniel Peake -Tenor, Michael Sumuel -Bass Baritone and Catherine Martin - Mezzo. And we will hear and see all of them in HGO's Productions this season
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| blog photos about Wolftrap's Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten |
A novel by Ingrid Rimland about Mennonites in Russia and their Odyssey to Paraguay caught my attention, called 'The Wanderers' published 1977. The author survived WWII and apparently drew on personal experiences in Europe as a young girl, and in Paraguay.
Martha Eggerth in a 1936 film.
Don't exactly fits the novel, but it is just about the right time frame ;-)
One feels, she based the last character, Karin, on herself, a young woman ever questing, ever querying the way her people lived, they way worshipped, the way they cling to old habits, language and rites.
Although the subject is interesting - I could not really relate to her heroines' actions or reactions, with the exception of the last girl, Karin, who rebels or tries to rebel against a life as restrictive as a Mennonite's can be. Most characters in the novel seem a bit one dimensional, some are fleshed out more, and yet not too creditable. But that is only my take. Others may find deeper meanings in the events of the novel.
Religious courage, women's survival, a man always bending with the prevailing politics.
But one is left with an unfinished feeling, what did become of KARIN?
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