Word: ballads
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...what is so rare and so right in a Juliet: a delicate haze of sensuality that clouds the clear child face with passion's promises. The scene in which Romeo and Juliet meet, in which she foots the galliard, and the two touch trembling hands in the dainty ballad of the masks, is a passage paced to the heartbeat of first love...
...gods who had endowed Wilde so richly with comic gifts refused to allow him the bonus of tragedy. Apart from The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Wilde produced nothing in the three years between his release from prison and his death (in 1900, of cerebral meningitis). Humor was his nature, sorrow only his perversity-as he himself may have realized, for it is said that when confronted with a huge bill for a surgical operation toward the end of his life, he sank back into the arms of the Comic Muse, saying: "Ah, well, then, I suppose that I shall have...
When I Stop Loving You (Frank Sinatra; Capitol). The breeze that accompanies a few welcome cliches might waft this melodious ballad into popularity...
Vocally, Libby does well with many of her blues and gets something quick and laughing into lighter things like Cindy and Roily Trudum. For a classic ballad like Barbara Allen, she has neither enough simplicity nor enough style; but the chief trouble with the evening as a whole is the unharmonized nature of the evening as a whole. In not giving a plain recital for those who want blues and ballads straight, Libby accepts the challenge of the far more precarious one-woman show. And she hasn't the expert showmanship; she just isn't actress or sorceress...
...That Got Away (Fran Warren; M-G-M). A torchy ballad by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin (from the film A Star Is Born). A bit too long-winded to be a fast...