Word: lording
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...TITLE: LORD BYRON...
...libretto by Gertrude Stein, and The Mother of Us All (1947) -- as well as on the 1928 Symphony on a Hymn Tune and the film score The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936). But the work that has long intrigued Thomson's admirers is his last opera, Lord Byron, which premiered at the Juilliard School...
...Dada classic Four Saints hangs onto the fringe of the repertoire by virtue of its pigeons-on-the-grass-alas text by Stein and Thomson's proto- minimalist, oompah-pah score. Even so modest a renown is likely to elude Lord Byron, just given a handsome first recording by conductor James Bolle leading the Monadnock Festival Orchestra and a cast of mostly unknowns...
...short, the Verdi of Otello or the Berg of Wozzeck. But he wasn't. (The score, which incongruously quotes both Did You Ever See a Lassie and Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, is like The Rake's Progress without the wrong notes.) And so there Lord Byron sits, as fresh, buoyant and uncomplicated as a summer day in the composer's native Kansas City. But not nearly as up to date...
...Lord Owen's desperation became clear as he sided with Serbian rapists against the besieged Bosnians. Just when this pressure pushed the Bosnian president toward the negotiating table, incompetent Secretary of State Warren Christopher tempted him to back out by flirting once again with American air strikes...