Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Stadium after the coup was a pro-Popular Unity singer, a man named Jarra. An officer in the stadium took a hatchet and cut off Jarra's fingers, according to a purportedly eyewitness account Kunzle reads, and Jarra fell to the ground. The officer kicked him. "Now sing, you motherfucker," he said. Jarra stumbled to his feet, said, "Comrades, let's give the bastards what they want," and, beating time with what was left of his hands, began to sing a revolutionary song. The 6000 prisoners joined in, and the officer shot him dead...
...demanding in opera, and while Barlow is an expressive singer, she is weak in both the top and bottom of her range. Nilsson, in other words, need not worry, as Barlow admits with engaging candor. "Nilsson is a high dramatic soprano-the only honest one. The rest of us sing in our own way. But if you can get up there onstage and carry it off, instead of having opera houses closed for lack of great voices...
...Foreign Ministry. The German press has acclaimed him for his refreshing informality, while European fans beknighted him the "Meistersinger Minister." Who knows? If Scheel could get together with West Europe's other leaders, even the factions in the Common Market might stay in tune. Scheel could sing, Edward Heath could pound the piano, and Georges Pompidou might even learn to tootle an obbligato on the French horn...
Left with these contradictory moments, an audience's response to Dylan is bound to be ambiguous. Is it just people's frustration with the politics of a movement that has not yet succeeded that generates their appreciation? Is it that Dylan continues to sing in the comforting voice, however poetic, of the middle class white man? Does his message lie in the passivist, more than the pacifist strain in his music? Or does Dylan's appeal still lie in the undercurrent of moralism, the attractiveness of a message like that of "Blowin' in the Wind," the song with which...
...thing the audience was happy not to do was pass definitive judgment on Dylan's politics. Virtually all his songs were meant to stress the theme of individualism. Maybe Dylan has moved emotionally from "Don't Think Twice" to "If Not for You," but choosing to sing only the first song this week was deliberate. Indeed, if anything, his stunning performance seemed a conscious attempt to prove that being himself, for Dylan, is a helluva lot to be. The audience seconded that judgment...