Word: mortals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with her faithless lover (Ivan Nagy), she matched each line of leg and arm to perfection. Transformed, in the second act, into a gossamer-clad Wili, she showed little tenderness, but conveyed a remote melancholy. Always, when she broke into dance, there was that sudden transformation of earth-bound mortal into incredible creature of some other...
...that dizzying descent the lost memory that now shone like a coin under the rain." That memory is of a boyhood encounter, with drawn daggers, at the edge of the sea. "The exact taste of that moment was what he now sought. In this nighttime of his mortal eyes into which he was now descending, love and danger were also in wait for him -because he already divined a rumor of hexameters and glory, a rumor of men defending a shrine which the gods would not save and of black ships roaming the seas in search of a loved island...
Judas has rarely been treated so sympathetically as he is by Webber and Rice. According to the Judas of Superstar, his friend Jesus is a charismatic mortal-much like an adored rock singer or the leader of a radical movement -who has begun to believe in his own press clippings. "You really do believe∕ This talk of God is true." The Crucifixion is seen as the result of bungling self-indulgence, and Jesus' faith in his divinity, and hope of Resurrection, as delusions...
...Devil has made off with his heart) and then make a sentimental journey back in time meeting first the Devil disguised as his old horse Prince, and then himself as a young man. It's a silly series of elaborations which I feel almost embarrassed to report, for the mortal failings of the Soldier were unintriguing enough in full bloom of youth, without sinking to this gratuitous nostalgia over his old age and death. There was a song, I believe, and the whole show winds up with Chestnut back in his trunk, giving his daughter some last-minute advice before...
...jacket design of the album is calculated to appeal to the believer in ghosts and seances and such. The front shows a sort of slimy, ectoplasmic quill pen writing music, and the back has a "quote" from Sir Donald Tovey about composers who "have shuffled off these mortal coils." This remarkably florid pseudo-Shakesperianism was allegedly transmitted last January by Sir Donald from beyond the grave. Tovey was never a great stylist, but even he never sank that...