Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boys were up for irreversible commitments. And luckily, they did not need to be. Some of Europe's most prestigious church choirs offered fame to the anatomically-intact. The Vienna Choir Boys, for instance, would train boys between the ages of 10 and 14 to sing with a sublime sweetness that was thought to rival the song of angels. Although we do not hear too much about the castrati today, boy choirs have retained their popularity. Last Friday, the Vienna Choir Boys, as witness to this popularity, came to Symphony Hall to celebrate their 500th anniversary...
Just when it seemed impossible to assess the Vienna Choir Boys without adding some qualification (i.e. they were good--for little boys), they sang their finale, Mozart's Mass in C Major and forged such a herculean comeback, it was as though another choir had donned their white sailor suits during intermission. Not only did the choir boys sing the sacred prayer with everything on target--their key, their inflections, even their infusion of reverence--but the choir introduced a soloist who sent a shiver down the spine of every patron in Symphony Hall. Terence Wey, a boy...
...Howl!" Philip Roth's most recent books have been about majestic unravelings, a surprisingly soothing theme in the 1990s. The way Roth patiently describes the desperation of his leading men has given mainstream American literature a respectable manliness. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral, a high school golden-boy grows up to a life made miserable by Vietnam politics and 1970s economics, and in the National Book Award-winning Sabbath's Theater, Roth portrays the fat, megalo-maniacally horny Mickey Sabbath as a suicidal Statue of Liberty character. In what William Pritchard described as "one of the greatest sequences...
...young princes (and designated heirs) that Richard murders have an important role in the original production and probably suffer the most under the asylum theme. The boy's parts are played by a small plastic doll and "the boxing nun." The replacement of two rather essential roles becomes an annoyance as the play progresses...
...there is a complaint to be made, it would be that only two songs from their first two albums are included, "I Will Follow" from their debut album Boy, and the hidden track, "October," from the album of that same name. Though their earlier songs lack the maturity and musical depth of their later work, the emotional undercurrent is still present. The omission of the classic October track "Gloria" is also puzzling...