Word: ballads
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...lover and his lass, that o'er the green cornfield did pass." It is no coincidence that critics describe London's vibrant theater as being in the midst of a second Elizabethan era, that one number on the Rolling Stones' newest LP is a mock-Elizabethan ballad with a harpsichord and dulcimer for accompaniment, or that Italian Novelist Alberto Mo ravia describes the British cinema today as "undergoing a renaissance...
...Morgan's fluent and expressive trumpeting and some good tenor-sax playing by Joe Henderson. The title piece is a bit ponderous, with more rump than roll, but Morgan's composition Eclipso is a humorous bit of hopscotch through calypsoland, and The Lady is a dreamlike, moving ballad for Billie Holiday...
...full 44 years after independence before the Irish fulfilled the Dublin street ballad. Last week, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rebellion, someone grandly pulled down (or, more literally, blew up) the top half of Lord Nelson's 134-ft. monument in the heart of Dublin. As W. B. Yeats predicted in his poem Easter, 1916, "All changed, changed utterly." Lord Nelson lay in a pile of rubble on O'Connell Street. Said the Dublin police, scarcely concealing their admiration: "An absolutely expert...
SANDY BULL, an accomplished guitarist, plays folk music as well as jazz, classical works and his own too-lengthy ragalike musings. His Inventions (Vanguard) includes such surprises as a Bach gavotte played on an electric guitar with an organlike sonority, a 14th century ballad performed on oud, banjo and guitar, and a swinging selection of 20th century rhythm and blues...
...black and white, Demy's genre seems to produce stories with discontinuous, rather fugal, structures. Blazing with color, Umbrellas of Cherbourg has no such effect: the realism is gone, and with it the crisp texture. But the musical structure remains, ballad-like now and thoroughly impressionistic...