Word: cappella
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...orientation chord followed by one bar of a cappella opens "Warm Love." You'd expect a children's song, each syllable enunciated in falsetto with proper childish awe. The band only enters between lines, to keep the time, with nuanced emphasis from the bass drum and guitar; two flutes linger through each line as backing vocals. Jackie DeShannon appears for the first chorus, and the song becomes a duet. More idealism, but a far cry from the bliss of "Starting a New Life"--because there's a distance involved, a musing quality absent from Morrison's music for years. Flutes...
...time Byron sees Cappella in a dream as young; at another point Byron is made old. Their roles merge. They are really the same person--they are Israel Horovitz...
...CAPPELLA IS ABOUT dependency. Byron and Cappella become so reliant on each other that they merge into one. Byron is submissive to the female surgeon Pauline, but their interdependence is mutually satisfying. Byron is also dependent on the copyist, who, though blind, is the final historical record of Byron's thoughts and deeds. It is as the copyist himself says, the story of slave and master...
...Cappella is a shift in direction for Horovitz. His previous works have been short sketches centering around single, topical social issues. But the limitations were obvious in Acrobats, a short metaphor about the dependency between a husband and his wife. Though it contained the innovative use of actual acrobats on stage playing the roles of acrobats and interspersing gymnastics with the dialogue, Acrobats offered little of lasting value. Similarly It's Called the Sugar Plum, a comedy about a Harvard student who kills another student when he accidentally slips off his skateboard under the wheels of a moving...
...Cappella is a much more complicated, complete work through which we will be able to examine the author's life. Horovitz has said that a work needs the total enigma in order to find the ultimate hero. Cappella is an attempt at that paradox--the only trouble is that that paradox would make Horovitz the ultimate hero...