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...ballads "My Heart Won't Lie" and "Hold Me for a While" are enjoyable, but lack the gusto that makes others on the album stand out. Perhaps these songs would appeal more to the "adult contemporary" crowd. "Hold me, fold me in your arms/Baby be my refuge and keep me from the storm/Will you enclose me, keep the villain out/Darling isn't that what you and I are all about..." ("Hold Me for a While"). These songs are perfect for a romantic evening on board a cruise ship, with a gentle breeze and a sky full of stars...
Nevertheless, he imagined the paintings as integrally connected -- a single work of art, no less united than a mural is, but portable. Migration has the effect of a visual ballad, with each painting a stanza: taut, compressed, pared down to the barest requirements of narration. No. 10, They Were Very Poor, takes the elements of a Southern sharecropper's life down to the static minimum: a man and a woman staring at empty bowls on a bare brown plane, an empty basket hung on the wall by an enormous nail -- the sort of nail you imagine in a crucifixion. There...
...late the previous night at Madison Square Garden with none other than the Jerry Garcia Band. But within a few minutes Murray had assembled his saxophone and begun to lead the musicians away. The two men led the group through various exercises, including Fox's compositions, the Thelonious Monk ballad " `Round Midnight, " and the Charlie Parker blues "Billie's Bounce." There was plenty of advice for the student musicians, sometimes technical, but more often philosophical. Fox advised, "Break all the rules, and then gradually...refine that expression...," while Murray was more simple and to the point, "Let's get lost...
...teeth with determination, when I just wanted to stand up and lament, "Where oh where, at a time like this, is the Bon Jovi musical accompaniment?" J.B.J. did such a good job with the Tex-mex sound, I'm sure he could pull off an inspired 17th century France ballad...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. An Evening with Allison Anders at 7 p.m. and "Gas, Food, Lodging" at 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 12. "The Ballad of Little Jo" at 1, 3:15, 5:30 and 7:45 on Saturday, Nov. 13. "The Gift" at 10 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 12 and Saturday, Nov. 13. Starring Katharine Hepburn: "Sylvia Scarlett" at 4:05 and 7:35 and "Christopher Strong" at 2:30, 6 and 9:25 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 14. Film Noir: "Lady from Shanghai" at 4 and 7:55 and "Gilda...