Word: soulfulness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lloyd Webber's next show, Starlight, which opened in London in 1984, was also directed by Nunn and designed by Napier, but this time the cooperative effort was less happy. What was conceived as a small collection of genre songs (pop, rock, mock-soul) for children, like Joseph, emerged instead as an overblown extravaganza that the composer, despite his initial enthusiasm for the production, later disowned. "It was a mistake to have put it anywhere near where it could be considered a Broadway musical," Lloyd Webber says, though he still defends it as a vehicle that brings to the theater...
Lloyd Webber believes music should drive a show, giving it life and shape, soul and heart. "Audiences in popular theater are much more prepared to surrender themselves to a composer going down the route of the opera," he says. "In fact, they demand that the composer is more in the driver's seat than they did 15 years ago. I would never again give my score to a director until I feel it is as near finished as I can possibly make...
...Rose. Steinsaltz also presides over two synagogues and two yeshivas and is a popular lecturer and radio speaker. "He is good at everything but raising money," laments one New York City supporter of the Talmud project. "Every time I bring a potential donor, he goes for the man's soul, not his pocket...
HAVING seen the state at its most evil, he has looked into its essence, such that no state, no matter how benign can be thought of as a defense against the autonomy of the soul. Brodsky implores us to care about literature because it offers a refuge from the tyranny of the state by offering us ourselves...
...state, we must know not only which kind of state our leaders would prefer, but also what kind of people they are. Brodsky believes that a political leader's relationship to literature reveals his respect for the autonomy of individuals, and his understanding of the integrity of the human soul. Would it be too much to say that Brodsky could hope for no better confirmation of his point than that Ronald Reagan most enjoys the fiction of Louis L'amour, while Paul Simon prefers Richard Wright...