Word: angel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond these reflecting angel's ironic...
...then, bug-eyed, I called you Angel...
Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (Tenor Jon Vickers, Soprano Helga Dernesch, Soprano Christa Ludwig, Baritone Walter Berry, Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan conducting; Angel, 5 LPs, $29.90). What a cast of performers! What a disappointment! Given Karajan's past flair for Wagner, not to mention stalwart Tenor Vickers as Tristan, this could well have been, the stereo statement of Wagner's endless paean to adultery. Instead, it is merely a smooth, workmanlike job, hampered by Dernesch's inability to make Isolde alive enough so that her death is significant. The record is also marred by the cavernous, "first...
...unbroken fratricide through all succeeding ages. In Miller's version, Lucifer incites Cain in the hope of establishing dominion over men on earth, comparable to God's rule in heaven. Thus man is in perpetual thrall to a power struggle between God and the Angel of Darkness, or to the conflicting forces of good and evil within himself...
...same slightly shy authenticity, she posed with her arms around them like a big sister, as if she was proud to be in every picture. Using the back of one of the girls for an arm-rest. She wrote each girl a warm personal autograph: "With Love, to Cindy, Angel Y. Davis... To Karen in the struggle. Angela Y. Davis...