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Derived from a ghastly-lovely medieval ballad (Töres dotter i Vänge), the film tells the story of two sisters, one dark (Gunnel Lindblom) and one fair (Birgitta Pettersson), one serving Wotan and the other Christ, one sunk in nature and the other lost in light. The dark sister hates the fair sister, and one morning, when the two girls ride together through the forest to bring candles to the village church, the dark sister secretly opens the fair sister's bread and slips a toad inside. Then, in the depths of the forest, she turns...
Adds Viederman: "Nothing is sacred. Even the old bawdy ballad called 'Barnacle Bill the Sailor' takes on a new look." The Russian version...
...House of the Rising Sun, which immediately follows it. Fare Thee Well is a moving declaration of a lover's farewell and vow to faithfulness, and Miss Baez's innocence and simplicity of delivery seem to embody that feminine virtue. Equally convincing, however, is the latter song, a ballad of a fallen woman, sung to a Negro tune widely known as Black Girl...
...record includes two ballads from the Francis James Child collection, Mary Hamilton and Henry Martin, and Miss Baez performs the former, a Scottish border ballad, with especial sensitivity. She does a Mexican song, El Preso Numero Nueve (The Ninth Prisoner) with all the verve and fire it was meant to have. Also included are two English broadsides, one of which, John Riley, deals with the classic theme of the lover returning home incognito to test his love's faithfulness...
...novel, really a philosophical fable, is an unusual book on several counts. The author, fortunately for him. is unknown. "Abram Tertz," his pseudonym, is the name of the Jewish hero of a ballad that passed the rounds in Moscow during the wave of anti-Jewish propaganda officially stirred up over the fake "Doctors' Plot" against Stalin's life in 1952. The book's manuscript was smuggled out of Russia to a group of anti-Communist Polish émigrés in France...