Word: joyousness
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...says, Christians should decide for themselves whether specific situations are "conducive to creative growth and integration of the human person." To be moral, the committee argues, sex ought to follow seven basic "guidelines." It should be "self-liberating, other-enriching, honest, faithful, socially responsible, life-serving and joyous." How these terms are to be applied may be open to debate...
...word of joyous warning. In Happy End, Brecht has dropped agitprop. The show has no redeeming social value save delight...
...published in 1946 by the Austrian scholar Otto Erich Deutsch. Compared with the 1,500 letters of Beethoven that still exist, the Schubert documentation is woefully small. Use of the songs to fill in some of the "psychological gaps" is a potentially dangerous technique. Mozart, for example, produced joyous music in desperate circumstances. With Schubert, however, it seems an acceptable approach. Aside from his school teaching and boozy sessions in various Viennese inns, the composer had almost no life at all apart from his music. "He needed to imagine what he could not experience," says Fischer-Dieskau. "That...
Mozart: Piano Concerto in C, K. 246; Haydn: Piano Concerto in D (AnaMaria Vera pianist, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart conductor, Philips). Another up-and-coming pianist is Ana-Maria Vera of Washington, D.C. The joyous innocence with which she attacks these lighthearted concertos is at once admirable and touching. So is her sparkling technique and rapport with Maestro De Waart, the Dutchman who is succeeding Seiji Ozawa at the helm of the San Francisco Symphony. Ana-Maria, born in 1965. was eleven when this recording was made...
...Albert Innaurato's sensibility operating from a totally different angle of vision, one needs to attend his one-acter The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie, which is part of a double bill called Monsters at off-Broadway's Astor Place Theater. In contrast to Gemini, Blimpie is as joyous as a bleeding welt. It is a lacerating look at adolescence from the freakish vantage point of a boy of 14 who weighs...