Word: lullabye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Auden's shipboard squall may have been uncharacteristic, but it should clearly be given more biographical weight than his social calendar. Yet Auden's reticence about himself may hamper all potential biographers. To his lasting credit, he believed that the dark demons could be hedged in by civility...
Human Rights Lullaby
Overall, Alice is a bit long, too loud here and there, and a touch gimmicky: the stage bulges with strange percussive instruments used for special effects. The large orchestra, which includes brasses fit for Mahler or Richard Strauss, sometimes sounds like an elephant loose at a Victorian tea party. The...
* The largest-selling Christmas record of all time, Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," was originally written--in Yiddish--as a lullaby for infirm children.
Nostalgia for nostalgia's sake seems to be the only plausible explanation for this show. Fifty-eight songs follow each other with breakneck rapidity, and they date from 1840 to 1938. No discernible rationale governs the choices. They range from the martial patriotism of Battle Hymn of the Republic...