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Beyond the Aegean, by Ilias Venezis. A poetic, nostalgic Greek lament for a pastoral Eden, as a boy and his grandfather knew it in pre-World War I Anatolia (TIME, Sept...
...unlikely chill with the tale of a lady whose poodle comes to tea in a dinner jacket. She turns a trick of perspective to eerie effect by playing out the story of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar with a cast of sewer rats. Her most persistent theme: a lament over man's inhumanity to beasts. As a thoughtful cat tells a shepherd dog in a message from the realm of the dead: "Beware of death: tell them [those-who-walk-on-two-paws] that the Styx will roll along their white skulls in the infernal regions while the animals...
...make the few sound richer. The tune was Mood Indigo, and the broad-spaced trio at the start became one of Duke's sound trademarks. Other tunes lay fallow in the band's books until somebody set words to them and they caught on, e.g., Never No Lament (Don't Get Around Much Any More), Concerto for Cootie (Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear from Me). Ellington is accustomed to hearing his ideas unexpectedly used by other songwriters, and is resigned...
...revolutionary who failed.* It's actually a monologue-a discourse between himself as Hans Sachs and as Walther von Stolzing-the Wagner of maturity and youth. Musically, it's between Bach and Handel, and between Debussy and modern jazz. The real meaning of Meistersinger is Sachs' lament: 'Fools, fools, all of them fools.' The young growing up to be foolish, and the old. like Beckmesser, becoming foolish despite age. It was always done as a nationalistic, Nazi show, and I hated it. Now I've done it as I felt it should be performed...
Wrote the Times in one of the most moving editorials Manhattan newspaper readers would read in many a day: "We mourn today for those who died, the ones we knew and the ones we did not know. We lament, too, the death of a ship-a gracious ship that now lies with all her cabins and saloons and murals, her spacious decks, her lovely lines, her exquisite and powerful engines, probably forever, in forty fathoms of water...