Word: emotionalize
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As the curtain opens on the sisters Tatiana and Olga in the garden of their estate, the light and airy pastels of the scenery form an ideal backdrop for the light-hearted dancing and the lovely innocence of young Tatiana (Larissa Ponamarenko), who is absorbed in a book. With the...
The third and final act opens several years later in the ornate palace ballroom of Prince Gremin. Tatiana, now his wife, has grown into a mature and beautiful woman; clad in a lovely rose-colored dress, she demonstrates her devotion to her husband as they dance before their guests. The...
Only after reading the accompanying texts is one able to recognize that the idealized and softly modeled figures of his earlier career become more agitated and tense in his later work. Again in the text, we are told that the figures gain "a more passionate directness of emotion" in Botticelli...
Besides, if his Koln Concert is any evidence, Jarrett finds meaning and authenticity only in a surfeit of emotion and moodiness. The album, a recording of one of his improvisational concerts, is a real soul-twister, one part tear-jerker, one part elevator fodder, and one part art. Jarrett oozes...
But as time passes, one cannot help but grow out of Jarret's music. Such raw emotion is on the one hand too close to melodrama, and on the other, too close to madness. The Koln concert began to sound less and less convincing, lacking in artistic and critical intelligence...