Word: sorrowfulness
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...line to exhibit their special talents. Each soloist's voice projects like several musical instruments playing at once. Verse after verse propels the audience on a voyage through spiritual lament and human urges, raw humor and subtle jabs, inheritance squabbles and political rivalry. The pendulum of elation and sorrow swings throughout...
...evening's final songs sends a shudder through the audience. The lyrics ask children to forgive parents' trespasses and impulsive behavior. "The hardest lessons in life," a verse concludes in Zulu, "are those learned too late, after so many untimely deaths. The children and ancestors wallow in sorrow because death haunts more than ever. Death brought by AIDS is death brought by adults who should know better...
...camps provide more than food and shelter. Huddled together in the winter cold, survivors are forming informal support groups to cope with their collective sorrow. One morning, as Karsanbhai prepares to leave for his daily search, two men step up and offer to join him. If they go in different directions, three can search more effectively than one. A fourth man brings them some bottles of water. Overwhelmed by this gesture, Karsanbhai hugs one of the men, sobbing uncontrollably...
...Highlights include multiple versions of "Man of Constant Sorrow," "Man of Constant Sorrow," particularly those by the Soggy Bottom Boys (actually, varying configurations of Union Station and friends); Chris Thomas King's bluesy "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"; "I'll Fly Away," by Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch; and Ralph Stanley's a cappella version of "O Death," a stark, primordial Appalachian apparition. But even such an unvarnished evocation of mortality doesn't cast a shadow over the collection's - and the film's - overall mood of sweet melancholy, encapsulated by Harry McClintock's 1928 recording of "Big Rock Candy...
...real heroes. They continue now, everyday, to rebuild and regrow what I know will be a miraculous place, the new South Africa. I think South Africans there, and all over the world, have a unique perspective and a unique opportunity to build love and joy where there was sorrow and despair. It will take time, but I have great faith in the outcome. If "The Syringa Tree" can be a tiny part of a new message of hope and joy, I'm honored and deeply grateful...