Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While some of the dialogue and song lyrics are a bit difficult to follow, the he plot line is simple. In a small English village, the betrothal of two of its wealthiest inhabitants, Alexis (Adam Wolfsdorf '97) and Aline (Jenny Little '99) is being celebrated by the whole town--with the exception of the lonely Constance (Jennifer Tattenbaum '99), who is pining away for the love of the ditzy but endearing Vicar, Dr. Daly (John Driscoll '99). Everybody seems enamored either with another person or with love itself. Even Alexis' pompous father, Sir Marmaduke (Jordan Cooper '99), admits that...
...third piece, the Schickalslied (Song of Destiny), the orchestra rejoined the chorus on a very crowded stage. The text of this piece is taken from a poem Friedrich Holderlin adapted from his own novel Hyperion. The poem glows in the first few stanzas, meditating quietly on the peace of heaven but shifts abruptly to stormy despair in describing "suffering mortals" being swept hopelessly from place to place...
Soon afterward she moved to New York City, where in the song Little Green, from her chart-topping album Blue, she memorialized the loss...
...Step groups, book clubs are invading homes, apartments and even TV studios. It's ironic. Oprah Winfrey, the woman once charged with debasing American culture through years of tacky psychodramas, has become, in a flash, the torchbearer of literacy, promoting such solidly challenging fare as Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon along with such worthy popular entertainments as Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone. Her book-club selections are instant megasellers, even when, like The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton, they have fallen into virtual obscurity. The result for publishers has been happy confusion. The lucky books...
...Forensics League contest "Picture the Millennium." Among the smartest was the entry from Dani D. Krasner '97, a feminist rant which evoked her frustration with below-grade men in painfully high-noted terms. Another excellent piece, "Something to Tell You," written by Visiting Director Elizabeth Swados, was a love song in which a male bisexual and female bisexual reveal their orientations to each other at the same time as their "love...