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...important sense of immediacy and earnestness of feeling in good folk music are muffled by unnecessary strings, bells, and percussion. One song with background orchestra does work. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", but the loveliest cut on the album is the least ornate, the ballad called "I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado." Here, she uses her deeply expressive voice most creatively against a gentle and unobtrusive background arrangement...
Contingents of army, navy and air force - 120 men of each service - circle the field and begin to sing The Three Rules of Discipline and the Eight Points of Attention, a Red Army ballad from the 1930s. Still no Chou or anyone else around to suggest the momentous collision of East and West. About ten minutes before touchdown, the silence of the sky is broken. The presidential plane drops into view...
Trumpets blared. Fireworks exploded. Drums and cannons thundered. A 700-voice chorus sang hallelujah. A band played The Ballad of Rainbow and Snow. Eight hundred Japanese children on ice skates released 18,000 multicolored balloons into the air. More than 1,000 athletes from 35 countries paraded in their winter finery. And right in the middle of it all was the old ringmaster himself, Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.). In calling upon Emperor Hirohito officially to open the 1972 Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan, last week, Brundage said: "May the Olympic code of fair play...
...Wanderer," a flowing ballad with a haunting melody, like several of his other composition, shows the baroque influence. Ploss's "Lady Grey," however, is more in a jazz-blues vein...
...patently a repository of memory and romance. Indeed, one of his earliest temptations is to step into a picture in his Crimean bedroom showing a path that disappears into a wood. He is very much like one of Nabokov's most delightful creations, Art Longwood of the poem "Ballad of Longwood Glen," who climbs a tree and simply disappears...