Word: balladeer
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...phone call; the plaintive 30-years' teacher unable to cope with modernity (Jeannie Affelder) announces a supermarket checkers' number by nostalgically recalling a favorite student ("She works down at the Star Market now.") Then again, a few juxtapositions make a viewer catch his breath. After Nina Bernstein's lonesome ballad "Just a Housewife," the sarcastic opening line of the prostitute (Martha Hackett)--"Well, I didn't want to be just a housewife--comes like a slap in the face. Each speech and song brings a new twist--a corporate executive is numbered among the hunted unhappy, a cocktail waitress keeps...
Lloyd Webber's task was to find a musical vocabulary that parallels Eliot's individual profiles of the cats. Here, Lloyd Webber's bent for the derivative is something of a help. He moves easily from rock to swing to ballad to full-throated hymnal invocation. That he overpowers as much as he underscores may be due to the Winter Garden's rabid amplification...
That song, quiet, terrifying and seductive, is like a lullaby of doom, but it has the flavor of an old ballad. Indeed, Thompson's apprenticeship as part of the seminal English folk-rock band Fairport Convention provides a kind of melodic continuity with the past. "Folk doesn't mean anything any more," he says. "Our strongest roots are in British and Celtic traditional music. In terms of song structure, we come out of the Scottish ballad form more than anything else. But what we play is rock and roll." Thompson, son of a Scotland Yard detective who played...
...Calif, (to simulate the dry, hot climate of Las Vegas), under a gleaming white tent pitched behind the Canyon Hotel. At suppertime the parking lot was still steaming. The challenger appeared for his ring work every evening at 5 o'clock, to a tape of George Benson's mellow ballad The Greatest Love of All. Said Cooney dreamily: "Listen to the words." As his dainty hands were being double-bandaged by Trainer Victor Valle, the fighter sang along: ". . . Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be . . ." Sonny Liston skipping, sparring and sneering to Night Train...
...citizens' reactions given by song in a bar. Carol Jackson as Balladier leads a song about freedom and deliverance from oppression but it is too drawn out. Her strong voice poignantly raises the three victims to the level of martyrdom. And Jackson effectively opens the second act singing a ballad about them. Appearances of a priest (David Jackson) and a reporter (Pat Marren) add even more dimensions of religion and comercialization...