Word: messiahs
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...Right on, Roy." Roy responded by singing about half the 18 songs on the program, including the wailing Roy's Bluz and the chuckling My Cat Walked Out Last Sunday. But the biggest applause came for the broad, sweeping melody that is by now his theme, The Messiah Will Come Again...
...latter having conducted at Carnegie Hall's opening night in 1891. "May the Lord have mercy and forgive us for what we are about to do," said Stern, smiling, before joining his friends in the final number, a spirited but flawed vocal rendition of Handel's Messiah...
...Spanish society, as became apparent to the world when it was shown at the Cannes film festival. Beggars take over a rich man's house and stage a ghastly version of the Last Supper. The best tough in the film is Bunuel's use of music: Handel's Messiah during the beggars' feast and then Chuck Berry when all hell breaks loose at the end. One of his very best films, much more original than his senile and commercial successes of recent years, such as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie...
...took Bowie and John Lennon a scant 45 minutes to concoct) by a man suffering from terminal ennui, but I'm not complaining, well, not much anyway. The album is a testament to the efficiency of the Bowie machine. Stripped as he is here of many cherished pretentions (adrogynous messiah, apocalyptic visionary, etc.) and locked into a disco beat, Bowie can still captivate us. It's a creditable and also slightly curious accomplishment...
...Lower East Side of Manhatttan was the staging ground for the Jewish dispersion into America. It was also the center of a unique and conflicting culture. The embers of an ancient piety awaiting deliverance by the Messiah flickered alongside the political activists who led the fights for higher wages and better working conditions. Frictions between the old and the new were aired daily in the Yiddish newspapers. Most notable was the Forward, whose editor, Abraham Cahan, became the Solomon of assimilation. Allowing your son to play baseball, he assured one parent, would not necessarily turn him into "a wild American...