Word: laments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much for lament. Director Sarah Caldwell saw how much mime matters in this drama; conductor Lazla Halasz perceived the continual recurrence of counterpoint and fashioned a clear texture to exploit the score's intricate dove-tailing of motifs. Meistersinger does not employ Wagner's half-mystical interweaving of words and orchestration. Rather, it makes the orchestra a commentator on the drama's events. This Halasz recognized, and gave the orchestra the subtleties of dynamics and tempo demanded by its place in the opera...
...poems (Life Studies), Lowell has limbered his forms and strengthened a strong and even peculiar personal tone that sounds a little like cubistic Browning. Like Browning, he seems to lack or at any rate to disdain the gifts of melody and phrase; though now and then, as in his lament for the passing of the civic virtues that once made Boston great, he gets off a sizzling epithet...
...only off-campus hall to enter the contest, McIntire sang the lament of "The Dying Cliffie" before an appreciative audience of over 100. Lyrics and melody were composed by Lisa Belberman...
...Pygmy Cosmopolitan." Moscow's biggest literary furor in months was prompted by another Evtushenko poem, Bdbiy Yar, named for a ravine near Kiev where the Nazis massacred 52,000 Jews. In a moving lament that was also a call to resist the anti-Semitism of Khrushchev's Russia, Poet Evtushenko-who is not Jewish-mourned...
...high point in the evening was his presentation of three original songs he had rarely sung before. Of these the most impressive was the mournful, haunting maiden's lament, "Unused I am to Lovers." The melody was a beautiful but unlikely combination of classical Italian influence and backwoods "hollars." I found myself wishing someone like Joan Baez would sing it so its true beauty could emerge...