Word: laments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...originally intended to lament how Harvard could win the rest of its Ivy matchups--and finish with an all-time team record 10-2 league mark--yet still place second in the Ancient Eight...
...opera's six scenes roughly equally between them, the composers have maintained stylistic integrity even while sharing melodic motifs and a unified dramatic plan. The interplay between them is slickly accomplished, especially in the final scene, when Moran picks up Glass's folk- style setting of the bird's lament and brings the opera to a peaceful close. Musical collaborations historically have not been very successful, but Glass's hypnotic arpeggios and Moran's dry Stravinskian syncopations are harmoniously soldered in a chamber opera that should prove practical and durable. The Juniper Tree represents the triumph of experience over youth...
Similary affecting is Meyers, who enters to lament "The Simple Joys of Maidenhood" in a clear, lovely voice. Disappointed with being married off so soon, she mourns: "Shall I not be on a pedestal, worshipped and competed for? Not be carried off, or better still, cause a little war?" Every character plays a bit of the fool in the course of the night --a refreshing touch--and this is Jenny's moment. But Guinevere is a clever, rosy-cheeked lass and Meyers' performance justifies all the attentions the good lady Jenny receives--from Arthur, Lancelot, and adoring court knights...
...aside from Garry Trudeau's daily cartoon lament over the fall of youthful idealism, that social daring has waned. Brown's eventual dethronement, though beyond the scope of Perry's book, was like the disillusionment with the Haight itself (California and America both turned again to Reagan), a disillusionment inevitable when hopes began so high. Where a society had once been entranced with the promise of youth, it--including the young--became obsessed with the mere appearance of youth...
...which opened on Broadway last week, is that it eventually indulges in just such a fawning congratulation of the ticket holders. The show's strength is that for most of the way it is an acerbic send-up of the current national selfishness, coupled with a knowing and ungooey lament for the loss of '60s innocence. It is hard not to like a show that says, "I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain." Almost anyone can be touched by the folly and sweetness of a man who wears a T shirt reading WHALES...