Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dramatically well-proportioned, moving yet suitably chaste reading of this Requiem of consolation for both dead and living. Baritone Thomas Beveridge sang with subtler phrasing and dynamic control than soprano Helen Boatwright, who, while possessing considerably more substantial tone, tended to substitute distracting inhalatory anguish for simpler feeling. The sorrow of her central text resides in the unadorned line, without need for such overt emotional infringement...
...Centreville, Connecticut, O'Neill could not leave it that simple or that cute. Instead, he gives us a hero who is a good-natured but pathetic drunk and a heroine who is a lonely schoolteacher. All ends happily in the end, but there is a lot of sorrow along...
Joseph Stein and Robert Russell, the authors of Take Me Along's book, have not shortchanged their musical of this sorrow. They have written a stunning, if not perfect, musical comedy book. As the script weaves gracefully around Bob Merrill's songs, the show remains wittily upbeat, all the while quietly asserting the downbeat aspects of the characters...
...entertainment. As the boozy, scapegrace official, Quinn delivers a prosciutto performance-but that is exactly what the part requires. Strutting on the cobblestones, cowering before Rosa, exchanging peasantries with the Germans, he becomes a figure of comic-operatic stature. If Quinn is Italo, Magnani is Italy. The ancient sorrow and strength of the nation are inscribed on a face that was not born but achieved...
...changed. Thus, on side two of Abbey Road, which must always be thought of as a single unified composition, Lennon's insistent call is for everyone to come to terms with the world just as he has come to terms with himself for the pain and sorrow that he caused someone else (i.e., Cynthia Lennon). The song "You Never Give Me Your Money" is about divorce proceedings and alimony payments and the section of it that goes "I never send you my pillow/I only send you my invitation/and in the middle of the celebration/ I break down" is significantly placed...