Word: maria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creation of an entire world--a world constructed from materials extracted painfully from within themselves. Through letters supposedly written to and by Mariana, they invent a cast of characters and unfold a baroque plot full of passion and intrigue. Interspersed with these letters are vignettes of other Marianas. Marias and Maria Anas, all trapped in some kind of "convent"--of marriage, of motherhood, of passion--and all somehow seduced and abandoned. And scattered throughout are poems and letters in which the authors speak in their own voices, voices that are surprising both in their explicit eroticism and in their unsparing...
...ACID test of sexual equality is the act of sex itself, then it seems that women--and men--have a long way to go. And the inescapable question--one that the Marias ask with a faint horror--is whether they will ever get there. Sometimes the answer seems to be yes, sometimes no. And as far as what happens with the way things are now and have been for centuries, the Marias seem to offer two alternatives for women: either give yourself to your enemy and go mad or commit suicide like Maria, or else harden yourself like Joana...
...moments of unity shorter and shorter. By the end of the book, the letters convey no bitterness but only a sense of disappointment and exhaustion. Not all was in vain, though. On the contrary, there seems to be something very precious even in that shared disappointment. As one Maria says in her final letter...
...least that seems to be the case with a new popular woman singer. Wendy Waldman. Waldman has been writing songs for a few years now and the wrote two that appeared on the Maria Muldaur debut solo album, which sold over $50,000 copies. She's already put out two albums herself, but Wendy Waldman is her first major record. Her voice sounds like Mitchell's might if you threw a little yeast into it and aged it for a while. Her music is at a crossroads between country, blues and folk rock and her songs adhere to the popular...
...Ballad of Baby Doe. She achieved her major reputation with a blinding display of Baroque wizardry 8% years ago in Handel's Julius Caesar. Subsequent years brought triumphs in Massenet's Manon; Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and trilogy of queens, Roberto Devereux, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena; and more recently, Bellini's / Puritani. Vocal fireworks are Sills' glory. She has a light, lyric coloratura so clear and swift that it seems phosphorescent. Though she is the best Manon around, her trademark has become the revival of obscure operas of the 19th century bel canto...