tell the other the reasons for their infatuation. “I love you for your silence, I love you for your peace,” Freddie proffers, to which Montserrat responds: “I love you for your passion, I love you for your fire.” At this point, gospel choirs and chords explode; in the ...
The Church should be probing for the kaleidoscope world and not for that one single shiny stone. Syd may have been a star, but our daily universe carries millions of those. Dedicated to those special ones whose story we will never know. Thanks to: Iain Moore, Paro नियत (where...
Martin Barre always got his big moments in a way that enhanced the structure of Jethro Tull’s pieces. For this one, he and Ian Anderson came up with a structural device – playing the verse chords in half-time, then speeding them back up – that worked. The famous story is that Jimmy...
From the most intense and brilliant large-scale, dramatic structures (such as Sweeney Todd or Assassins) to the lightest of melodies (A Little Night Music), and from the simplest of chords (Into the Woods) to the most dense harmonies (Follies), he has it all. He is clever without tricki...
"[The Mousai (Muses) tell a story to the goddess Athena :] Blest indeed our fortune here [on Mount Helikon (Helicon)], were we but safe. Crime is so unchecked that everything frightens our virgin hearts. Brutal Pyreneus haunts me; in truth I've not recovered yet. He brought his sava...
When both of us look backward…we see and are devoted to telling about the lines of people that we see stretching back, breaking, surviving, somehow, somehow, and incredibly, culminating in someone who can tell a story. — Louise Erdrich ...
Setting and story summary Act I Scene 1. Prince Tamino, lost in a wild forest, is being pursued by a giant serpent. He collapses. The Three Ladies, who serve the Queen of the Night, appear and kill the monster. They find the unconscious Tamino attractive, and they argue about who will...
one is reminded that this is Phil Elverum near the peak of his powers: a man who knows so many of the ways to make a song; a man who's still working out new ways to tell the truth. How do you tell the story of stepping darkly into the sublime? How do you find words for the...
There would have been no ’90s rock one-hit wonder more predictable than Filter, a post-grunge industrial rock success story thanks to 1995’soft-misinterpretedscreamer“Hey Man, Nice Shot.” But though 1999’sTitle of Recordled with the ignorable alt-metal of first single“Welcome to the Fol...
Or so the story goes. Out of all the songs on Licensed to Ill, "Paul Revere" is the only one that doesn’t feel like a time capsule. Its storytelling rhymes, written with Reverend Run, and goofy Western theme introduced many rap-ignorant suburban kids to the narrative possibilities of ...