Word: lament
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...INEVITABLE DOOM of American musical life has been discussed with morbid relish by almost everyone concerned for years now. Composers, still suffering from the complications of the turn-of-the century stylistic crisis, lament the unwillingness of audience and orchestras to accept unfamiliar music. Conductors skillfully transfer the blame from orchestras to players, whose reticence and unionization undermine effective rehearsal of the unknown; but they, too, indict reactionary audiences and patrons. Professional players are often delightfully unaffected in their views-remarks like "I'd rather be at home driving splints under my fingernails" are a typical response to the rehearsal...
...Wild Bunch. Both a celebration of the Old West and a lament for its passing. Sam Peckinpah wrote and directed this epic based on the exploits of the Hole-in-the-Wall gang. Set in South Texas at the turn of the century. Peckinpah uses Mexico as the last frontier for dying gunmen, who finally rise above themselves and fight for some ideal when a revolutionary member of the group is captured by a Mexican warlord with whom the riders did business. The situations are no less important than the action, which is violent. Well acted, beautifully directed and photographed...
...earned his secure nook in history and was hankering after other accomplishments. For one thing, he wanted to compose serious music-and he soon turned out three major religious works, including The Gates of Justice, a Negro-Hebraic summons to brotherhood, and Truth Is Fallen, a lament for the victims of Kent and Jackson State premiered by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 1971. For another, he had been playing as many as 250 one-nighters per year on the road and he wanted to spend more time with his six children. He did that-and now the musical public...
Some thought Lilli Marlene was a respectable girl who was bidding goodbye to a drafted soldier; others suspected that she lounged around lanterns for immoral purposes. No matter. The lament that began as the signing-off tune of Nazi-occupied Radio Belgrade eventually crossed Allied lines, was translated into 42 languages and became the great hit of World War II. German Singer Lale Andersen, whose sensuous, never-never-land tones made the record so popular, is now retired, but last week, at 59, she published her memoirs, recalling her surprise at Lilli's phenomenal success. To commemorate the lamplight...
...from pedantry. Mr. Berman's is a musicianship which so naturally blends the elements of feeling and idea, that one can quite honestly say (in the words of the great George Szell): he thinks with his heart and feels with his mind. The Music Department may well lament their loss...