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...Tony Awards (satirized by Forbidden Broadway, to the tune of I Could Have Danced All Night, as "I couldn't hit that note"). But two other numbers that would suit her quiet intensity -- the lovelorn Losing My Mind and the show-biz survivor's anthem I'm Still Here -- are left out, apparently because they appeared in Side by Side. Adding one in each act would make audiences happier without thwarting Andrews' gracious insistence on an ensemble show...
Alas, The Goodbye Girl went wrong in at least four of those 50 ways. What arrived on Broadway last week is earnest, serviceable yet rarely stirring and almost never believable. It's never outright bad, it's occasionally funny, and twice -- when Peters sings the self-help anthem How Can I Win? and when Short courts her on a rooftop -- it's thrilling. But most of the craftsmanship is humdrum. The narrative lacks suspense and liberating flights of fancy. The production has no style, no look, no distinctive flavor or texture or sound. And it constantly brings to mind better...
Then we all sat down at one long table and broke bagels together and sang the Dunster House National Anthem and gave thanks for living in Dunster. Tears ran down my cheeks. What a House, I thought to myself. What a House...
...political views and any austerity of style, Rzewski gradually adopted a quasi-19th-century romantic idiom with the intention "to establish communication [with], rather than to alienate an audience." His most famous work is a brilliant hour-long set of diverse variations for piano on a Chilean leftist anthem, "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" (1975). In the late '70s and early '80s Rzewski turned to American folk song and jazz for musical material and to environmentalism for political motivation. In 1987-88 he composed the oratorio "The Triumph of Death," based on a play by Peter Weiss depicting...
...thought of his words as the Howard University choir led the congregation in singing Lift Every Voice and Sing, long known as the Negro National Anthem, at the conclusion of the service that was held at the National Cathedral the day after the Supreme Court's memorial ceremony. As the pallbearers slowly rolled the Justice's casket across the cathedral's floor, I imagined that he would have especially appreciated this stanza...