Word: lyrical
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Simultaneous with the release of Tracks, Bruce Springsteen's new four-disk compilation of previously unreleased masters, stores across the country began to sell Songs, a 306-page book anthologizing every lyric Springsteen ever penned. These expensive, lavishly-produced new releases--together, the photo-heavy book and the beautifully packaged compilation will cost the die-hard fan $100--coincided exactly with Springsteen's nomination for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and roughly with the release of multi-disk compilations by Springsteen's fellow Hall of Famers Bob Dylan and (posthumously) John Lennon...
...quarter-century recordingcareer. Tracks argues that fans of theyoung Springsteen, screaming through a wall ofsound, are indeed also fans of the olderSpringsteen, alone with his acoustic guitar. Butwhile continuities are evident on Tracks,far more present is the sense that Springsteen haslost the connection between music and lyric, thedriving and unavoidable force of his vocal linesas they were propelled by the slap-happyenthusiasm of the E-Street Band. This is arevelatory compilation: not a compilation ofextraordinary songs, but a compilation importantfor the way that the interaction and arrangementof songs show how impoverished his songs havebecome, now that lyrics have been...
...TRAVIATA Boston Lyric Opera Shubert Theater November...
...November run of the Boston Lyric Opera's La Traviata marks several firsts. This is most importantly the first show of the 1998-99 season of the Boston Lyric Opera, which now in its 22nd year is considered to be the fastest-growing opera company in America. This new season is also the first time the company is performing at the lavish Shubert Theater (usually reserved for touring Broadway companies), right next door to their old venue, the Emerson Majestic. This is also baritone Hector Vasquez's debut on the BLO stage after four seasons at the Metropolitan Opera...
...priesthood of her own: about 100 worshippers are wearing stoles. One is shot through with glitter, another with gold lame stars. They are all purple, the color, confides a congregant, of the Resurrection. (Actually, purple symbolizes penitence, an unintended irony.) Garbed in forbidden raiment, the parishioners rock to the lyric, "You allowed us to come together one more time." It is this communion that sustains Marian Moschetti, a lapsed Catholic who rediscovered her faith five years ago. "I saw the true spirit of Christ embodied in this community," she says. "Corpus Christi isn't a building. It isn't bricks...