Word: laments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only low point in the score is a tasteless lament for Harlem: "Don't Forget 127th Street," contains lyrics like "there's no slum like your own . . . the neighborhood is classy--we've got rats as big as Lassie . . . H is for the heroin they sell here. A is for the alleys where we play . . ."The audience loved it. There was even a loud round of applause just after a mention of the white man's wild ideas about the Negro's dancing ability. This, of course, was followed by an amazing display of dancing from the chorus. Such...
...vision that Cervantes understood and that left Hemingway mesmerized. "It is Spanish," said Actress Aurora Bautista of Lorca's greatest play, Yerma. "We are unused to things Spanish." And unused, too, to the terrible directness of vision that illuminated Lorca's best writing, as in his poem Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, in which he speaks of the death of a matador who died in a goring...
...Cliffies in Lament...
...indirect result of the new library, Radcliffe students will be allowed to use a Lament collection during the regular school year for the first time. The Harvard map collection, which now occupies the rooms the History library will have, will be moved to Lamont, where it will be open to all University students...
Bernstein conceives of the prayer as less a lament for the dead than an affirmation of life in the face of death, a celebration of God at the very moment when his mystery is the most difficult to bear. This dualistic concept gives his music a savage, struggling complexity, in which great orchestral thunder dies under the thumb of fragmentary jazz melodies, then resolves itself in intricate contrapuntal passages for both chorus and orchestra. But Bernstein does not settle on any idiom long enough to perfect it. Because his concentration span is short to the point of dilettantism, he achieves...