Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NAPOLEON believed that any Augustus can create a Vergil; any man with sufficient money, he thought, can underwrite a poet to sing his praises. Napoleon also proved that his own thesis is wrong, for what poet created an epic about the Corsican dictator? What Bonaparte did not realize is that an emperor who would create a Vergil must have not only the wealth, but also the stature, of an Augustus. Great poetry can only be written about great topics, topics which are common and central to the experience of all mankind. Any lesser theme is doomed by its nature...
...both sides of the footlights. Four years ago, in a New York City Opera Traviata, Domingo inspired audible sobs all over the house when he carried the dying Violetta (Patricia Brooks) around in his arms like a baby. Says the still impressed Brooks: "Now every soprano wants to sing with Placido...
...heroine. Says Domingo: "The voice must say I love you. Love for a heroine or hatred for a villain must be portrayed through the public." Domingo has the voice. He is acquiring a public ready and willing to jostle its way into the opera any night he chooses to sing...
Like a Tennessee warbler, the electric guitar flutters downward in graceful slides and turns. The country fiddle scratches out a polite howdy. And the nasal, melancholy baritone begins to sing...
...Gonorrhea, now that's one word the kids in Hair wouldn't dare sing of! But it isn't poetry, either. A case could be made, I believe, that popular music rarely incorporates real honest-to-God poetry-even John Lennon's surrealistic verse depends heavily on the accompanying orchestration before exploding within us into patterns of subjective association-but in Brel's case I don't think the argument really has to be developed...