Word: darknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brahms: Four Serious Songs, Two Songs for Alto and Viola, Eight Lieder (Mezzo Janet Baker, Pianist André Previn; Angel). Set to biblical passages about death, suffering and love, Brahms' late songs have a stately quality that Baker's dark, resonant voice conveys perfectly. Her low notes thrill with their sad, serene beauty...
...plot also leads him into a very dark passage when the young woman (Susan Anspach) who helped recruit him for the job-and who was his once and, he hoped, future lover-is murdered because she is a witness to a key kidnaping. But the emotion this event releases in Moses gives the film an honest weight that is not burdensome or pretentious. At this midpoint, the production becomes serious without turning sober and without slackening its strong pace...
...police who think he is the one who has been making threatening phone calls to the doctor. Francis eventually winds up in the cellar of his house doing woodwork as therapy. Cheever paints a scene of dusk falling over the suburb of Shady Hill and concludes: "Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains...
...began to doubt," he recalls, "not the power of God, but all the traditions and dogmas." Deterred from a religious vocation, Isaac followed his equally radical brother Israel Joshua to the journals of Warsaw. In his spare time, the young reporter wrote a handful of stories and a dark novel about a false messiah, Satan in Goray, that prefigured his later works...
They managed a lone hit, "Different Drum" in 1967, but the group eventually split, leaving Ronstadt to fulfill the Capitol contract as a solo vocalist. Then the '60s turned to the '70s; and the dark-haired, wide-eyed, carefree spirit of the California music scene hooked up with producer Peter Asher and soon evolved into a sensational new female vocalist. Five platinum albums later, the innocent Arizona teenager has risen in stature to the top of the heap, taking over as rock's leading female vocalist...