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...premiered last week at the legend-laden Opera House in Central City, Colo., Composer Moore once again mined some rich native lore: the story of Colorado Silver Millionaire Horace Austin Warner ("HAW") Tabor and his blonde bride from Wisconsin, Elizabeth McCourt ("Baby") Doe. The opera's title: The Ballad of Baby...
...opera stage. "Most composers today seem to be writing under such influences as Schoenberg and Stravinsky," says Moore. "I tried to return to melody as the key to communication." Others will get a chance to decide how he has succeeded. Sold out for its 16 Central City performances, The Ballad of Baby Doe will probably be performed on Broadway in the fall...
...Tennessee Ernie, Elvis Presley, and finally "Yeh-heh-heh-hes, Baby," I think I'll give up my citizenship. Not that I don't want to be an American, but I think the public would exile me anyway if I came back singing a square, old, lovely ballad or a song with clever lyrics...
...paid out on Monday, not a dog soljer no more," exults a barrack-room ballad in From Here to Eternity. But a few days later, his mustering-out pay gone, his new-found freedom turned sour, the pre-Pearl Harbor infantryman in James Jones's novel surrenders to The Re-Enlistment Blues and signs...
...word are seemingly unrelated, however, both to each other and to the reader, so that each aspect, while often interesting in itself, never becomes related to a complete poem. Typical of this difficulty is the use of an off-beat second line in what should seemingly be a regular ballad form. The variation is intriguing, but it does not help the overall effect...