Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CASTLE (London). Melodic, dreamily dissonant and heavy with musical sighs, Bartók's only opera uses the fairy tale merely as a symbol. When Bluebeard's last wife insists upon opening the doors in his dark castle, she intrudes upon his past and, to her sorrow, resurrects his other wives, still very much alive in his memory. Christa Ludwig is forceful as Judith, whose curiosity leads her to her doom, and Walter Berry (Christa's real-life husband) is mellowly desolate as Bluebeard. Sung in Hungarian, with Istvan Kertesz conducting the London Symphony Orchestra...
...camera was the author himself, intelligent, sentient, an amused and ironic observer of a society in vortex. The "I" (Bert Convy) of Cabaret is a gaping boy tourist with a typewriter. In the Isherwood-Van Druten versions, Sally Bowles focused the disorder around her in personal disorientation, sex-sipped sorrow, pleasure-bent pain. The part is beyond the technique and temperament of Jill Haworth. Sally is a mixture of waif and wanton, gin and gallantry; Actress Haworth is a tin-tongued ingenue...
...part with an annoying wobble, and sounded strained on the high notes. But he, almost alone among the principals, made his words clear, and he played his role vigorously. Janina Mukerji sang Dido with perfect control and intonation. Both her voice and acting were warm, and her sorrow and anger at Aeneas' fickleness were the most powerfully conveyed emotions of the performance...
...until this day for the holy Catholic church and for this apostolic see?" he asked. "This question of ours would not be justified if there had not reached our ears news and rumors regarding your society of which we cannot hide our surprise and, for some of them, our sorrow...
Speaking in Holmes Hall on "the effect of drugs on the mind," Farnsworth emphasized his sorrow over the "slow disappearance of objectivity" on the part of the entire university community about psychedelic drugs...