Word: joyousness
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...says modern music has to be unpleasant? As the 20th century winds down, the joyous, freewheeling eclecticism that has long marked American music is flourishing more strongly than ever. Some challenging releases prove the point...
...rest of the time we are left in no doubt about anything. The churchmen are saintly in their lack of guile; the Indians are all joyous children, born to be victimized; the settlers are political schemers and oppressive brutes. You can smell the concluding massacre coming for hours. The film's story may be historically true, and it may provide an apt analogue of current conditions in many parts of the Third World. But one suspects liberal show biz, carried away by its high-mindedness, of bending history to its own sanctimonious purposes. Dramatically too The Mission is a drag...
...Virgil, Texas (pop. 40,000 and growing). Kind of a downtown Our Town, you might say, full of high boho spirits and jokey asides that illuminate with fondness as often as they satirize without malice. But do not doubt it for a second: True Stories is the most joyous and inventive rock movie-musical since the Beatles scrambled through Help...
...days later Jacqueline Cole awoke, smiled and returned her husband's joyous kiss. "Miracles can and do occur," said the happy minister. "I guess we've muddied the waters surrounding the question of a person's right to die." His wife is walking with the help of a metal frame, her memory slowly returning. Doctors hope to send her home in six weeks...
...second movement, "Diaspora Dances," is more conventional but no less eclectic. Letters of the Hebrew alphabet are given numerical values, which serve as the music's metrical underpinning. The exotic sounds of ancient Palestine mingle with the plaintive songs of the shtetl and the joyous urgency of jazz, encompassing in quick sketches Jewish music through the ages. Only Bernstein would try something like this, and only he could get away with it. Emotionally undisciplined, Jubilee Games is no masterpiece, but it is fresh and powerful, and one of Bernstein's most honest pieces in years...