Word: lullabye
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Now at 62, beyond promise, beyond middle-age slump, beyond fashion, the clever schoolboy deserves to be read for what he is: an endlessly experimenting, self-revising poet whose true voice is to try all voices, an honestly fluctuating responder to a fluctuating age. City Without Walls, containing poems of...
COUNT Ferdinand von Zeppelin dreamed of his magisterial airship dropping entire wars of bombs on helpless cities terrorizing whole continents with floating, dreadful sovereignty, reconnoitering phantom seas, icy wastes, swirling deserts, piercing the Himalavan mists. His corsairs were never conceived as the emblem for Led Zeppelin, arguably the most instrumentally...
His mother neglects him for her lovers, so he attaches himself emotionally to a nanny and an eccentric uncle. The uncle, famous as an explorer and balloonist, fills little Balthazar's head with ideas that later crop up inappropriately in moments of crisis. For example, Balthazar is found drunkenly...
A SIEGFRIED IDYLL; HINDEMITH: TRAUERMUSIK (Angel). This is an intimate and unpretentious performance, largely due to the warmth that Daniel Barenboim elicits from the English Chamber Orchestra. The Siegfried Idyll sounds like what it was meant to be: a lullaby. The Schoenberg piece, one of the composer's very...
Look, if a guy wants to exercise his lungs by belting out a few bars of his favorite tune, who's to complain? Certainly not the staffers at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, when a rousing version of Hello, Dolly! wafted out of the sterile isolation...