Word: balladic
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...sing me that old silent song,” he writes. His ear for music is evident in the formal construction of his poems, in which he often employs straightforward rhyme schemes. His poem “The Swing,” for instance, strictly follows the ballad form. He writes, “the bright sweep of its radar-arc / is all the human dream / handing us from dark to dark / like a rope over a stream.” One can easily hear the oscillating, swing-like rhythm, and this type of melodic accessibility permeates the entire book...
...true loves / That make me want to say goodbye.” It is entirely unclear what Wainwright is talking about beyond the level of platitudes, and the broader feeling conveyed, that of love’s sadness and longing, is just as bland. Towards the end of the ballad, the piano delves into a cascading and unpleasant series of arpeggios that make little sense with such downhearted lyrics...
...March 18 at 85. The 6-ft. 6-in. Texas-born actor fit the rugged American frontiersman mold so well in the five Crockett episodes of ABC's Disneyland that he went on to play Daniel Boone in the 1960s NBC series of the same name. (Boone, as the ballad went, "was a man, yes a big man!") Parker starred in such movies as Old Yeller and Westward Ho, the Wagons! But in the years following his TV fame, he set his sights on real estate development and started a family winery in California. Parker, who was married...
...aptly-named “Fountain of Youth” band (Jaleel Shaw on saxophones, David Wong on bass, and Martin Bejerano on piano), Haynes’ concert last Friday showcased his breadth of experience, and his mastery of the stylistic spectrum. His sensitive lightness of touch on the ballad “For All We Know” was contrasted with the face-melting tumult he unleashed on John Coltrane’s lightning-fast “Mr. P.C.” The impeccably poised swing he invoked throughout with his riding right hand was equaled...
...tribute to the band’s oddball stage mannerisms. Then, it begins to explore the intricate and fascinating relationship between Meg and Jack. One revelatory glimpse of the two, in which a sheepish Jack consoles Meg after driving her to tears with a piano ballad, suggests that this relationship is worthy of an entire film’s worth of material. This thread is abandoned, however, for nostalgic coverage of the White Stripes 10th anniversary concert, complete with a cheesy black-and-white freeze-frame of Jack and Meg waltzing at the end of the show. Any of these...