ABSTRACT
Within the artistic community, several people demonstrated their reaction to the Committee inquisitions through their work, including Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan. Miller drew parallels between the Salem witch trials of the seventeenth century and the McCarthy hearings in his play The Crucible: the women in Salem are accused following allegations from people whose motives are not questioned. For Lillian Hellman, the theatre had always offered opportunities for the presentation of moral and political issues, beginning with her first play in 1934. An important aspect of Candide, one that distanced it from Leonard Bernstein's earlier popular musical theatre works and aligned it with his orchestral and 'highbrow' compositions, is the rhythmic language that he employed. The range and variety within Bernstein's instrumental music in Candide is very wide, encompassing traditional forms and styles, but also including references to other numbers within the operetta.
