Word: sorrowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...awesome aesthetic reach of Sunday's "intellectual memorial" for W.E.B. DuBois owed much as well to the voices of Walter Robinson and Co. These voices proved more than equal to the haunting and soulful beauty of what DuBois deftly called the "Sorrow Songs"--the Negro Spirituals. The Singer of "My Lord, What A Morning" matched Marian Anderson at her best, and the beautifully disciplined improvisation on "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"--boldly folding over the classical Spiritual rendition with the classical or high-style Gospel mode--was something to behold...
...merely read through his or her own part,seemingly disregarding the other musicians. Thesecond movement, a Scherzo, was more intriguing,as each repetition of a given part acquired a newcharacter, slightly more gentle, or much moreaggressive. The opening piano chords of thefollowing movement, an exquisitely personal andpainful document of sorrow, did much to establishthe intimacy of the setting and the spectralnature of the sound. But Chase's vibrato uponentering destroyed the perfection of the moment,and the syncopations o the climax were far frommoving. In the Finale, though still not entirelycommitted, the performers paid back some of theemotional deficit which...
...program opened and closed with a prayer and alternated between readings and four spirituals, which Du Bois referred to as "Sorrow Songs...
...editor Michele Stephenson, they jumped at the opportunity. "Life and Time Warner had already sponsored an exhibit on Somalia, and we felt we should do the same for Bosnia," says Stephenson. "It was a chance to tell the whole story -- all sides and facets." The result is "Faces of Sorrow," a collection of 64 images that document the cruelties and suffering that have befallen Serbs, Croats and Muslims caught in the conflict...
...been with us. We think about it every day," says Francis Schroeder Jr., who still has vivid memories of policemen lining the hospital corridor to give blood to his dying uncle. But, says Duncan, "she did not return out of guilt. She's here to answer, not assuage their sorrow." His wife, he adds, has asked if she can get into "some victim-perpetrator reconciliation program...