Word: joyous
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...Haydn songs were gems. Works of his maturity, they are joyous without being flippant, poignant yet optimistic. The first of the two sets of Brahms waltzes is the more widely known, perhaps because it has fewer solo passages and thus is more often performed by choruses; perhaps also because it maintains a gayer, more spontaneous mood than the second set, composed five years later. It is this second set, however, which left the more profound impression. Its gloomy, anguished texts convey a dramatic unity not present in the other and the musical treatment is appropriately more intense. Although...
Israel's 1,400,000 Jews sat down to the most bountiful meal each could spread, for Passover is a joyous festival to celebrate the Hebrew deliverance from bondage and arrival in the Promised Land 3,000 years ago. Now the land was theirs, and for this they could be grateful, but it was a land of little...
...Russians produced a Folies Bergere, it might look like Grand Concert. Although the actors are fully clothed and there is hardly any comedy, the spectacle includes grand opera, ballet, folk dancing, and scenes of joyous living on the kolkhoz farm. From several shots of the countryside, laden with produce, the camera takes you inside the Bolshoi Theatre; in Russian, bolshoi means great, but in this instance it might be translated huge. At least a hundred men roam about the stage in Prince Igor and a flock of birds scurries across the dawn at the appropriate moment...
...member of the '86 staff says that the paper of those days should be thought of rather as a social club than as a disciplined board. In the following year the joyous journalists wrote a CRIMSON song destined to last into the 20's. The chorus went...
...singing a joyous song...