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Most of today's leading composers lament the current state of opera. Most opera managers return the favor, justly abhorring the quality of the operas usually produced by today's leading composers. As a way out of this impasse, Pierre Boulez, the aging enfant terrible of French music, once suggested blowing up all the old opera houses and starting anew. Britten's Owen Wingrave at least suggests that less draconian musical measures are possible...
...nostalgia magazine." Columbia and Decca report exuberant sales of their re-releases of rare old recordings, from Bessie Smith to Alice Faye. More than 300 radio stations have brought back the serials of the '30s and '40s, morality plays for two generations of American children. Once again Lament Cranston, the Shadow, knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men, and once again the Green Hornet, accompanied by his faithful Filipino valet Kato, buzzes off in the Black Beauty to "hunt the biggest of all game: public enemies who try to destroy our America...
...remembered more in sorrow than anything else. His beloved town has mushroomed into the world's most populous-and most polluted-capital, home to 11.4 million gasping people. The fabled pines are suffocating from smog. The blue sea is washed by tons of noxious industrial wastes. Tokyoites lament that soaring Fuji-san, obscured by deadly clouds of sulfur dioxide, shows its face only one day out of every...
Miss McKenna has a magnetic personality, and she knows how to populate a stage singlehanded. At the same time, she releases the audience's imaginative powers. What animates her performance is that she so obviously loves her people deep down in her bones. Delivering a ritual lament in Gaelic, she creates an atmosphere of runic awe; her body becomes a crucible of Irish antiquity and suffering...
...being withdrawn from circulation. They lost something more: many colorful examples of cockney slang, which substitutes rhymed phrases for action words-such as "gawd forbids" for bothersome kids and "trouble and strife" for a nagging wife. No rhymes have yet surfaced for the new currency, hence the following lament...