Word: elegiacally
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...tone piece, last played in Manhattan ten years ago. Moved by the death of the 18-year-old daughter of a close friend, Composer Berg interrupted work on his opera Lulu to write the concerto in the summer of 1935, died before he could hear it performed. A tenderly elegiac work, it spreads a filigreed web of wispy lyric phrases, works up to a climax drawn from a phrase of a Lutheran hymn (Es ist genug), ends with the violin soaring softly above the fading orchestra. Last week's audience warmly applauded Stern's sensitive reading...
...play seems a little lonely, a little too distant from its materials, a little too given to mood. Music does service for speech; the Inge touches, the Inge faces, even where effective, seem overfamiliar. Perhaps the play's too plangent and elegiac title helps express what is unsatisfying about its text...
Sentimentalists may compose elegiac dactylls in memory of Georgian Grace, but the residents of Quincy House look proudly out of their fish-bowl refectory or patter happily about their duplex suits. The elevators have failed occasionally; so far there is no way to get water in the dining room; some ceilings are not completed; and the courtyard is still unreclaimed desert. But the Quincy organism is alive and functioning...
...Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo Andric. An elegiac novel by a fine Yugoslav writer distills 300 years of his land's history...
...Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo Andric. An elegiac novel by a fine Yugoslav writer distills 300 years of his land's history in an account of the idlers and warriors who passed over a beautiful stone bridge...