Word: maria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...libretto was a piece of hack work from a Parisian scenario factory run by an enterprising auteur of sorts named Eugene Scribe. Having just successfully completed Rigoletto and La Traviata with Italian Librettist Francesco Maria Piave, Verdi despised the messy French text with the passion he brought to everything...
...MARIA, B.W. Stevenson. Nine in September. "Just my thoughts about you bring back my peace of mind." Good melody...
...Crown of Feathers," the best story in the book, a beautiful and haunting story, a girl remorseful because she didn't marry her grandfather's choice finds a crown with a miraculous feathery cross in her pillow, and becomes a Christian and then the squiress Maria Malkowska. Miserable with her unfaithful husband, she conjures up the Devil, who tells her that it was he who braided the feathers, that "the truth is that there is no truth...
WENDY WALDMAN-- Waldman's career as a balladeer got a surprise boost when Maria Muldaur's album, including two of Waldman's songs, became an unexpected hit this year. I have never heard Waldman's voice, but Passim rarely indulges in second bookings for artists unless they manage strong audience response the first time around. Waldman's two cuts on Muldaur's album were more promising musically than lyrically, and the lyrics were as good as most of the ballads you hear nowadays anyhow...
Born. To James Taylor, 25 (TIME cover, March 1,1971), melancholic folk-blues singer (Fire and Rain, Knocking 'Round the Zoo), and Carly Simon, 29, gutsy singer-composer (Anticipation, You're So Vain) and daughter of the publishing Simon (& Schuster): a daughter, Sarah Maria; in New York City...