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...trademark are still present, but the score is suffused with an Italianate warmth and passion that explicitly recall Verdi in some passages. The most dramatic of these occurs when Garibaldi, who has been sitting in a box placidly viewing the action onstage, suddenly interrupts to deliver an aria about his life that has the fervor of Di quella pira from Il Trovatore. Whatever the ultimate fate of the CIVIL warS, Glass has a piece that can stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Tree Grows and Grows | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...Vahey's set and in Marc B. Weiss's subtle lighting. Only Bannen lets down the side. He is an intelligent actor, but he never finds the fire in the ashes of his character. What should have been a duet is, as a result, too often an aria. But perfectly sung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Anguished Aria | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...litany tidily summarizes the full range of contemporary American leisure activity, it is no wonder that Jackson is in the air everywhere. The pulse of America and much of the rest of the world moves irregularly, beating in time to the tough strut of Billie Jean, the asphalt aria of Beat It, the supremely cool chills of Thriller. Thriller has been on the Japanese charts for 65 consecutive weeks, and local teen idols are copying Michael's moves and even singing some of his songs. Thriller is also South Africa's top seller: "Jackson, you might say, bridges the apartheid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why He's a Thriller | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...rock music). Groups: Maimed; Sick and Vile; The Herpes. 10:00 Barkie (new comedy series). What happens when a divorced homeless couple adopts a Chicano orphan who can change himself into a flying puppy? Edward Asner and Linda Blair. Delightful, raging. 10:30 Luciano Pavarotti Sings Every Aria Ever Written (9 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Monsters Are Back at the Door | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...prepared for the possibility of Julius' receiving the maximum sentence. But despite the rumors in the newspapers, Ethel's sentence came as a terrible shock ... Visibly shaken and ashen-faced ... Ethel had tried to bolster her own and her husband's spirits by singing the aria Un bel di from Madame Butterfly in a clear though tremulous voice. Julius, no musician, had responded with The Battle Hymn of the Republic, a brave if rather grimly impersonal answer to Puccini's aria of love and longing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Invitation to a Bad Time | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

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