Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Probably no child lived in a world of such frantic fantasy, and almost all of his works in later life have their roots in his childhood. Shortly before he died, Redon visited the town where he grew up, and reported, "I have completely understood the origins of the sad art I have created. It is a site for a monastery, an enclosure in which one feels oneself alone-what abandon! It was necessary there to fill one's imagination with the unlikely, for into this exile one had to put something. After all, it may well be that...
...blazing skies. Gabriele is the sole surviving member of Germany's Blue Rider group, which included not only Kandinsky but Franz Marc and Paul Klee.* In spite of her bright palette, there is no gaiety in her canvases; they are intense, charged with emotion, and all a trifle sad-like the artist herself...
...Small Sad Sam (Phil McLean; Versatile). That persistent folk hero of the pop charts, Big Bad John, is cut down to size ("four-foot-six in his stocking feet") and given the ride he so richly deserves. His alter ego, it seems, "slid into town one rainy night/ Runnin' like a dog away from a fight/ He had a pretty big mouth for a guy his size/ And everything he said was a pack of lies . . . Small Sam, chicken...
...after 14 years, I had reviewed all the artists there were and all the kinds of music there are; you go on repeating yourself after that." Nowadays he never listens to records, composes as regularly, he says, "as a hen lays eggs." Contemporary music, he thinks, is in pretty sad shape: "Practically none of the music reviewers like any of the music they hear, or like any musical event." And what about the public? "The truth about the public," says Composer Thomson sadly, "is that they have been oversold on music. Satiety will soon...
Ireland, said Sheridan, is the land of happy wars and sad love songs. So we are informed, at any rate, by one of the singers on a Columbia album called "A SPONTANEOUS RECORDING!" The spontaneous performance is given by the Clancy Brothers (Tom, Pat, and Liam), Tommy Makem, Pete Seeger (on banjo), Bruce Langhorne (on guitar), and what is described as "a 200-voice singing audience." The audience is not omnipresent, and all of the songs (like all Irish songs, I'm convinced) have the gift o' th' gab. The performers, too, are ebullient, effervescent, and effusive, a welcome change...