Word: longings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soul and no limits, but there are, at some times and in some hands, certain arbitrary restrictions. Free form is fine, but the more precise disciplines of melody and orchestration can lead to suspicions of musical conservatism, even retrogression. Yet jazz can--and should--go anywhere, as long as the direction's not conventional, and there is no one better than Charlie Haden at taking an old road to a brand-new place...
...carefully ornate sound that's intimate yet rich. Lyrically, Apple is full of fury: at her past, at her lovers, at herself. In To Your Love she sings, "It's hard enough even trying to be civil to myself." In Limp she mocks, "It won't be long till you'll be/ Lying limp in your own hands." She knows there are things about her that put people she loves at a distance. As she watches them recede, she is wistful, but triumphant too, because she has remained true to her nature. "Only kisses on the cheek from...
During the 17 years--17 years--that this situation continues, Lin forms a strong attachment to Manna Wu, a young nurse at his base hospital. That is, she was young when she and Lin first met, but Manna has grown understandably restive during a long courtship that never gets beyond some furtive hand holding. (Army rules forbid unmarried couples from even walking together outside the compound walls.) She keeps urging Lin to divorce his wife, and every year he goes back to his village and tries to do so. And every year Shuyu agrees to his request but then changes...
Despite some sweet moments and sincere performances, the show fails to register. One problem is that adapter Richard Nelson has moved the pivot of the story--a song that stirs memories in Gabriel's wife (Brown) of a long-dead boy who once loved her--to earlier in the evening, thus throwing off the rhythm of the piece. (Another change: she sings the song rather than hears it.) What's more, Walken seems blandly disengaged as Gabriel, missing the psychological tension, singing indifferently and barely hinting at an Irish accent. Walken used to be a Broadway dancer, but here...
ROGER CLEMENS Sorry, Beantown. Rocket man gets ring after long Boston drought. Pr-ou-ou-d to be a Yankee...