| 单词 | elegiac |
| 例句 | And while Lefty stops to breathe it in, I’d like to take this opportunity to resuscitate—for purely elegiac reasons and only for a paragraph—that city which disappeared, once and for all, in 1922. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The first songs were vigorous and then Mama Adanna’s voice broke out, husky and elegiac. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At which point a "soulful" diva intrudes and somewhat spoils the elegiac mood. New band of the day ? No 972: Koreless 2011-02-22T15:02:58Z There he produced a stream of paintings that synthesized Cubism and other European modernisms, mixed in non-Western motifs and mysterious symbols and culminated in his lusty, elegiac German Officer paintings. Marsden Hartley Gets His Due in Berlin 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z They are elegiac and wistful, vibrating with erstwhile notes of a moment since passed, but whose echoes resound across contemporary life. A Photographer Looks Deep Into America’s Past 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z But this is not nonsense poetry, which tends to reject elegiac sincerity in the face of emotional distress. Nonsense by Christopher Reid – review 2012-09-28T21:55:02Z During one elegiac section floral images were woven in three-dimensional layers, resulting in a forest of translucent scrims. Music Review: Bang on a Can All-Stars’ ‘Rimpa Reimagined’ 2012-12-10T23:08:45Z Most of the works employ fishing nets in hanging sculptures, creating elegiac volumes in the gallery. Our rivers, ourselves: One artist's very personal take on the impact of dams 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Cabral played the jaunty melodies of the first movement with flair, and demonstrated an appealing tone in the elegiac second movement, with sensitive support from Mr. Kong. Music Review: ChamberFest Lets Juilliard Students Show Off Skills 2014-01-14T22:32:14Z His music sets the mood throughout: elegiac, jaunty, ominous. Dance Review: Catherine Galasso?s ?Bring on the Lumi?re!,? at Joyce SoHo 2012-01-31T23:19:58Z Mr. Iyer, himself a philosophy professor in England, is a deeply elegiac satirist. Lars Iyer’s ‘Wittgenstein Jr.,’ Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘F’ and More 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s viscerally impactful and elegiac — a seemingly more personal extension of his work exploring political and social subjects, like surveillance. Five Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z The poems are elegiac, brooding and death-obsessed, haunted by intimations of mortality, by ghosts facing backward with regret and forward with trepidation. Review | Louise Glück’s first collection since her Nobel gracefully captures our fragility 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z “It is one thing to die into a dead world and, metaphorically speaking, leave one’s bones to bleach on a desert lit only by a dying star,” she writes elegiacally. Is Our Obsession With Wellness Doing Us In? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z The elegiac shots are right out of an Edward Hopper painting, and a line about the family's "stoic sadness" rings true. A superb ensemble anchors "The Humans," showcasing an anguished, claustrophobic Thanksgiving dinner 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z He engages in a bit of wild dancing, gratuitously out of step with the song, which is an elegiac, smoldering crawl with hints of Madonna’s “Crazy for You.” The Playlist: Jay Z Responds to Police Shootings With ‘Spiritual’ 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Lipman demonstrated a rich tone and elegant phrasing in the slow opening movement, with its elegiac, wandering melodies, and a fleet-fingered technique in the vivacious second movement. Music Review: Juilliard Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z They adopt the scale but not the macho; they add parodying overtones or elegiac undercurrents; or they exercise restraint, delicately explore touch and even broach maturity. 2010-02-12T00:07:00Z These qualities also give the project an elegiac air. Jim Jarmusch’s Collages Are Ready for Their Close-Up 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The pianist opened the work with a gorgeous, elegiac solo, the delicacy of Moshier's touch and the translucency of his textures setting the tone for the music yet to come. The spirit of Studs Terkel expressed in jazz 2011-01-25T15:10:16Z As one wanders through the Co-op's several floors, one is pursued by repetitive music – elegiac strings insisting on the likelihood of a mournful outcome. Before I Sleep; Eurydice; Macbeth 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z The mood of “The Little House” hovers between cozy and elegiac, wistful and realistic. “Life Story,” Virginia Lee Burton’s Picture Book for the Ages 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Here’s a palate cleanser: a dreamy, elegiac, sweet song about hanging with your well-dressed buddies that blends electro-R&B thump and indie rock desolation and ends somewhere near “My Boo.” Taylor Swift’s Heartbreak Dreamscape, and 9 More New Songs 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The show includes prime examples of Traylor’s signature style — elegantly spare, alternately buoyant and elegiac. Bill Traylor’s Outsider Art Veers Into the Mainstream 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The music is live and largely elegiac, the dancing virtuosic and mostly abstract though flecked with gestures of vulnerability, pain and anger. Running Live Dance Drills at the Armory 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z The elegiac theme of the slow movement, which can sometimes seem endless, was lyrically compelling and deftly shaped, without ever sounding manipulated. 2010-01-09T01:00:00Z The most touching performances were the elegiac “Left Behind,” from “Spring Awakening,” and “Goodnight, My Someone,” from “The Music Man.” Music Review: A Chatty Concert Debut for the TV Star Jonathan Groff 2014-02-16T21:33:38Z There’s also a new element: horn arrangements by Matthew E. White that can be pop fanfares, an elegiac chorale or a plush big band. New Music: New Albums by Mountain Goats, Kurt Elling and Trash Talk 2012-10-09T01:10:07Z These gripping paintings are both elegiac and subversive. February gallery shows ponder architectural possibilities 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Beneath the jauntiness and good humor there is an unmistakably elegiac undertone to this film, an implicit acknowledgment of lateness and loss. Review: Agnès Varda and JR Travel in the Present, Glancing at the Past 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z A walk-in fantasia of urban infrastructure, with crisscrossing bridges and towering scaffolds, it’s as upbeat as the Picasso is elegiac. Art Review | 'Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris': Picasso and Peers at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2010-04-01T22:49:00Z Over time, with the relentless advance of the digital frontier, they became unanticipated, elegiac commentaries on the waning of print. Steve Wolfe, a Painter of Books by Their Covers, Dies at 60 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Catherine Opie’s photographs of Elizabeth Taylor’s curtains, closet, and kitchen—taken in 2010 and 2011, the year that Taylor died—are elegiac and stately, and deeply revealing of Taylor’s interior life. Termite Art and the Modern Museum 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Thursday night pairs the elegiac “Second Hand” with the bold “Biped,” which incorporates computer-generated images that mimic human movement. The Week Ahead: Dec. 4 ? Dec. 10 2011-12-02T19:02:33Z My children are too young, yet, for Swanson’s thriller and the Pinkneys’ elegiac tribute, or maybe I simply want to believe that they are. Children’s Books About Black History, Heavy on Biographies 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z In its elegiac lament for a disappearing river, the book chimed along with America’s budding environmental movement. Books: ?Deliverance?: A Dark Heart Still Beating 2010-08-24T22:27:00Z Arca’s classical background showed up in his ease with stately tempos and elegiac melodies. Arca, Valued Facilitator, Steps Out Front 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z As Mr. King said not long ago, sounding almost elegiac, “What a long strange trip it’s been.” Stephen King and John Mellencamp?s ?Ghost Brothers? Musical 2012-04-01T04:17:15Z The guitars on “Dweeb” gurgle and sear, as they do throughout the debut album of the Los Angeles band Teenage Wrist, which blends the elegiac and the industrial. The Playlist: Sade’s Haunting Lullaby, and 11 More New Songs 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The narrators are both elegiac and mordant, dipping in and out of lives, moments, acting as the collective consciousness of an entire neighborhood. “The Virgin Suicides” Still Holds the Mysteries of Adolescence 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z The opera opens with a pair of brooding, elegiac choruses: first a Chorus of Exiled Palestinians, then a Chorus of Exiled Jews. John Adams’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z The elegiac note in Chekhov, as in Weller's Fishing, springs from a rich sense of life. Review 2010-09-20T23:53:00Z The exuberant first movement leads to an elegiac Andantino, whose soaring melody Ms. Hristova played with expressive nuance and a rich tone, particularly attractive in the violin’s plummy lower range. Music Review: Showcase for Bella Hristova at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-04-22T21:19:00Z “Stella Maris” is, by comparison, a small and frequently elegiac novel. Cormac McCarthy’s Unsettling Dream of a Novel 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z This new essay collection by Mark Grief, one of the founding editors of the influential journal n+1, offers a portrait, alternately hopeful and elegiac, of the egghead as a youngish man. 9 Books for Back-to-School That Times Editors Think You Should Read 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z You create elegiac moments in the flashbacks, but there are also awkward moments, and even farcical ones. Nick Jonas "has in him a real mystery": Director on why he's compelling in grief in "The Good Half" 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The plays, being performed in rotating repertory, are elegiac and are as warm as anything you can find on Washington stages now. Ripe for the political season, the Apple Family Cycle returns to Studio 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z It ends in an elegiac vein, the final shots widening to the city. Matthew Barney, Back in the Game 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Dausgaard ratcheted the emotional pitch of the march up to the level of hysteria, but didn't quite sustain the anguish into the finale, which was elegiac rather than tragic in mood. Prom 19: BBCSO/Dausgaard – review 2012-07-29T11:10:19Z But he captures her full attention when he is dancing by himself, to the elegiac “September of My Years.” Theater Review: Dancing to Twyla Tharp and Sinatra?s Music 2010-03-26T04:27:00Z His approach set up the Adagio’s true theme, a wistful, elegiac melody for solo clarinet, played gorgeously by Anthony McGill, the Philharmonic’s principal clarinet. Review: The Philharmonic Reveals the Rhetoric of Rachmaninoff 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The two lullabies framed the “Cookie Galop With Waltz,” whose dotted rhythms start exuberant and then turn softly elegiac. Music Review: Olga Vinokur in Recital at Bargemusic 2013-01-04T22:37:50Z Its elegiac pacing and atmosphere convey the ponderousness of the nation’s losses at that moment. “JFK: One Day in America” restores the humanity to one of America's most dramatized tragedies 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z The four elegiac, epic poems total more than 1,000 lines, and are devoted to time and divinity. ‘Four Quartets’ Review: Virtuosi in Verse 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z He rose to fame in 1992 with the release of his elegiac Western, “All the Pretty Horses,” which won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z He is the subject of a distressing and elegiac documentary, “Everybody’s Everything,” that was released last month and lays bare the tug of war between his accelerating fame and crippling fragility. Juice WRLD and the Tragic End of the SoundCloud Rap Era 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The women of this book are clever and witchy, speaking in a poetic cadence they have created together, elegiac in some moments and overwrought in others. Two Novels Confront Violence Against Women 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z And its elegiac tone omits Mr. Roth’s bitterly sarcastic humor. Review: ‘American Pastoral,’ Philip Roth’s Fiery 1960s at Low Heat 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Where once his sound was as hushed as a whisper, now he is backed by a rambunctious eight-piece band who give his elegiac reveries plenty of welly. Bon Iver 2012-11-09T11:58:06Z Then it was back to Mendelssohn for the encore, the second movement of the D minor Trio, whose elegiac opening Mr. Ax performed beautifully. Music Review: Perlman, Ma and Ax in Live From Lincoln Center 2010-05-06T21:00:00Z This new novel is elegiac and melancholic, about an elderly recluse and the house fire that changes his life in ways he might or might not want. New books by dead authors 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z It’s here that the movie begins to soar, reaching toward its elegiac title with shocks of beauty and gathering waves of concentrated feeling. ‘At Eternity’s Gate’ Review: An Exquisite Portrayal of van Gogh at Work 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z This 10-minute duo is filled with passages in which either the cello or the violin provides insistent accompanimental figures as the other breaks loose in elegiac, fitful melodic flights. Music Review: A Cozy Chamber Concert Buoyed by Lapping Water 2011-04-18T21:55:54Z “Unforgotten” is also familiar: at once a comfortably formulaic British mystery and a somber, elegiac melodrama, though a particularly well-made version of each. Review: ‘Unforgotten’ Makes the Case for Decency 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z In his elegiac 2012 novel, “The Yellow Birds,” Kevin Powers took a different tack, turning the Sisyphean nature of war in Iraq into a kind of sad parable. Human Costs of the Forever Wars, Enough to Fill a Bookshelf 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Because Berninger sounds like a polite Nick Cave and suffers like a literate Chris Martin, the National's music is often described as elegiac, when in truth, it's more uplifting than that. The National: gloomy ? with a hint of sunshine 2010-04-22T20:30:00Z They pierced the heart with their elegiac tenderness. Steve Reich, London Sinfonietta; Mitsuko Uchida; Tallis Scholars – review 2013-03-10T00:06:07Z The original elegiac, maudlin homage to Cronkite and Murrow has been scrapped in favor of sprightlier music and a snappy montage of clocks, newspapers, smartphones, scripts, laptops, spilled coffee, video monitors and stiletto-heeled pumps. Television Review: ‘The Newsroom’ Returns, With Some New Faces and Issues 2013-07-12T21:33:38Z It unfolds in glacially elegiac phrases that recall Arvo Part, its slow progressions both unexpected and deeply satisfying, and Mr. McMillen and Mr. Emelianoff played it with focus and rich tone. Music Review: A 40-Year Partnership That Is as Youthful as Ever 2011-06-03T22:08:57Z The show at LACMA, where Burden's temple of streetlamps "Urban Light" stands out front, is an elegiac but blissful farewell to an extraordinary artist. Chris Burden's 'Ode to Santos Dumont' inspires wonder, delight 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z The elegiac, slow middle section, heralded by a trumpet fanfare, leads to a striking passage of unison strings. Music Review: A Composer Who Rolled the Dice 2011-01-30T22:07:57Z Clyne wrote the tender, elegiac “Within Her Arms,” scored for 15 strings, in 2008, in the aftermath of her mother’s death. The New York Philharmonic Returns, in the Midst of Transitions 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z Langrishe, though, was nowhere to be seen or heard, and the elegiac epilogue was all the better for it. How Deadwood went from eye-popping TV to a parade of old hams 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z There's fear and horror, of course, but also boredom and excitement; some are direct and descriptive, others poetic and elegiac. Bang Goes the Theory 2010-09-07T23:04:00Z But the Cure softened once it got to “Faith,” one of the most ponderous albums in its catalog, and a record that set the template for a decade-plus of elegiac grimness. Music Review: The Cure?s Reflections Tour, at the Beacon Theater - Review 2011-11-27T22:50:25Z Yearningly wistful, almost elegiac, it suggests that, belatedly, Bowie might for the first time be simply being himself in a song. Who is David Bowie? A guide to the V&A retrospective 2013-02-16T19:59:00Z A great deal has been written about his poetry, which is comic and elegiac in equal measure. Review: Charles Simic Displays a Poet’s Voice and His Passions 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Images from Balanchine’s “Serenade” filter in here but are not lingered upon; they recur in the “Allemande” in an elegiac duet for Ms. Vostrotina and Raphaël Coumes-Marquet. Alexei Ratmansky Celebrates Richard Strauss 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z A spokeswoman said it will end with a "beautiful and elegiac" work that will see horses performing in the park and would be "a fitting goodbye for now". Gallery hosts 'celebratory weekend' 2013-08-30T06:16:19Z It's an elegiac movement recorded by a symphony orchestra that features desolate violins swelling around a barely there synthesizer pulse. Daft Punk's unlikely journey into the 'Tron: Legacy' universe 2010-12-26T06:00:00Z The violin plays an elegiac, wayward melody that seems just eloquently melancholy. Review: A Surprise Conductor Makes a Superb Debut 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z I think he’s responding to the elegiac and wistful note on which I end the book, which I know irked him a little. ArtsBeat: The Mostly Good Old Days: Boris Kachka Talks About ‘Hothouse’ 2013-07-31T16:34:41Z He put down his tracks and sent them to his producer, and the album, a great one, with elegiac songs such as “Leaving the Table,” “On the Level,” and “Treaty,” took shape. Leonard Cohen and the Divine Voice 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The show closed with a moving, elegiac rendition of “The Sounds of Silence,” but it was Simon’s penultimate number that left me the most devastated. Feeling Lost with Paul Simon One Last Time 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z According to Mr. Oliver, whose “Victor” is the latest in his singular series of elegiac performance pieces, this homeless denizen of New York City was roughly 5-foot-7. Review: Love Among the Shadows in Edgar Oliver’s ‘Victor’ 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z This work might project elegiac feelings, but in the context of a show in which mockery is the prevailing spirit, it’s potentially offensive. Art Review: Bruce High Quality Foundation’s Hits at Brooklyn Museum 2013-07-11T21:38:26Z The result was “My heart sings on,” an elegiac song for string quartet, musical saw and signing singers. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z She is never ironic or underwhelmed; her preferred mode is fierce, devoted and elegiac. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: 'Ten Thousand Saints' 2011-06-17T20:37:55Z An ongoing cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies, for example, is more effective in the lush Fifth and the elegiac “A Pastoral Symphony” than in the violence of the Fourth and Sixth. A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z There is riveting tension between the somberly elegiac vocal writing and the heaving piano part, thick with grating precisely textured chords. Music Review: Festival of Song Offers ?Newest Deal? at Merkin Hall 2010-05-05T22:38:00Z Just as the title “DNA” suggests that entries in the series reflect a person’s genetic makeup, so too could his elegiac sculptures be thought of as portraits. Revealing Jack Whitten’s Secret Self 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z On the elegiac “I Bet on Losing Dogs,” she commiserates with the helpless and the hopeless: Mitski’s ‘Puberty 2’ Mines Her Scars for Raw Meaning 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Dustin Reno’s crucial rear projections mingle elegiac videos of idealized youth with banners tipping us off to the ages of the characters, starting at 8. Emotional heft and humor at the heart of Rajiv Joseph's 'Gruesome Playground Injuries' 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Lee brings this vision to life in a grand, extravagant, elegiac, ecstatically imaginative vision that proposes nothing less than a new social contract. Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z This is perhaps the most elegiac, memorable part of the book — a piece of sustained reportage that ranks alongside “From Beirut to Jerusalem,” Friedman’s masterly first book about the Middle East. The Message of Thomas Friedman’s New Book: It’s Going to Be O.K. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z You listened hard for evidence of this riotous lifestyle in Moeran's elegiac music, but it remained another hidden code. Rewind radio: Jamie Cullum Interviews Dave Brubeck; Brubeck at 90; David Walliams on Philip Larkin; Decoding Basquiat; Ernest John Moraen 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z The images are elegiac, lush even, but the beauty of ruins carries a truly piercing chill. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-15T23:07:37Z The group remained precise and transparent, even as Elgar ratchets up the elegiac energy in the final movement to a point just past advisable. Music Review: Amphion String Quartet Performs at Alice Tully Hall 2014-04-01T20:53:09Z The first musical I saw there was “Follies,” Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s elegiac farewell to old-fashioned, mindlessly optimistic Broadway musicals like “Hello, Dolly!” How a Jerry Herman Song Called a Future Critic to New York 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z “Trios” is a triumphant tour through her book of finely sculpted compositions — sometimes elegiac, sometimes evasive, always distinctly hers. ECM’s Catalog Is Finally Streaming. Here Are 21 Essential Albums. 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Her colleagues gathered at the edges of the pool, their insistent motifs underpinning Ms. Richards’s elegiac solo. Music Review: Asphalt Orchestra Enlivens Lincoln Center 2010-08-05T19:55:00Z It is a disturbing, elegiac novel, full of original and moving observation, yet all — apparently — on a relatively miniature scale. Profile: Marilynne Robinson 2011-03-30T13:38:57Z Last Thursday, the “innocence” half was elegiac and angry, with Bono singing about the Troubles and the death of his mother, while the “experience” half was more expansive, optimistic, and uplifting. U2: Bring Back the Irony 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z One of the lush moments in the ever-changing texture of the Cerrone echoed Samuel Barber’s elegiac temperament. Phillips Camerata and guests perform a trio of Washington premieres From that correspondence, themes emerged: elegiac thoughts about gay life and desire. Andrew Holleran’s Work Has Traced the Arc of Life. Now, He Takes on Death. 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z That complication alone makes The Lovers a warmer entry than many in the canon of marital-strife studies, the best of which range in approach from elegiac sentimentality to all-out emotional assault. Bad romance: a thorny history of marital strife on film 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z “Or sometimes he’s goofy, somewhat elegiac, full of praise and gratitude.” Thomas Lux, Poet Who Wrote of Life’s Absurdities, Dies at 70 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z How to Dress Well’s 2010 debut album, “Love Remains,” was filled with elegiac songs, awash in loops and reverberation. Tom Krell of How to Dress Well, on Caring 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z This novel’s tender, often elegiac tone deepens what is arguably a sensational premise and informs a perspective intriguingly different from teen fiction’s usual forward focus. Finalists for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Akron’s own Chrissy Hynde beautifully and elegiacally captures the feelings of disillusionment that arise when you go home and — no thanks to industrialization and overdevelopment — don’t recognize your old stomping ground. 16 Songs to Soundtrack Your Fourth of July Barbecue 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z And, while the play has one or two awkward contrivances, it confirms Bennett's peculiar gift for blending the satiric and the elegiac. People – review 2012-11-08T01:07:23Z The music was swaggering, agitated and elegiac by turns, Mr. Bang’s playing brash, folksy and reminiscent at times of Vietnamese string sounds. Billy Bang, Jazz Violinist Inspired by Vietnam Experience, Dies at 63 2011-04-14T02:43:25Z As for Mr. C’s elegiac “my son” comment to the departed Richard Horne ... well that may not just be a figure of speech. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 16: Doppelgangers and Dancers 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Effective minimalist figures added touches of color in the strings and piano, and the horns conveyed an elegiac quality. Bowl concert plays as an elegy to James Horner, and an ode to composers of movie music 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Although his eyes are obscured behind dark glasses, Hamm’s squirming, sudden changes of mood, from irritated to elegiac to abusive, arrive like small shock waves. Suspending Disbelief in a Savage ‘Endgame’ 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Bradley’s current mood is both cheerful and elegiac. Jimmy Bradley Is Out of Here 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z With its elegiac sweep and opportunities for high drama — not squandered by either dancer — the Tudor excerpt served as a historical and stylistic anchor, before the evening moved into less traditional territory. Review: Osipova Stretches, and Reconnects With Hallberg 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z In this elegiac, thoughtful novel, he begins the process of trying to put them back together again. Books of The Times: Reconstructive Surgery for a Shattered Family 2011-07-28T21:00:13Z There is an elegiac tone to all three works. The time of their lives 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The enormity of the tragedy, the utter senselessness, provoked an outpouring of elegiac verse, often straining to be commensurate with the magnitude of our grief. ‘Map: Collected and Last Poems,’ by Wislawa Szymborska 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Insistent cello motifs underpinned melodies in the upper strings, punctuated by energetic outbursts and elegiac passages. Music Review: Tribeca New Music Festival Features Jack Quartet 2010-06-06T22:14:00Z In Mr. Mills’s own elegiac “4th Caprice Fantasy,” the focus was on rich harmonies and singing phrases. Music Review: Bargemusic Labor Day Festival Features Four Premieres 2013-08-30T23:22:02Z Simultaneously, it also manages to grow into something else: a sweeping, elegiac novel about a blighted city. Review | ‘Long Bright River’ is that wonderful thriller that subverts your expectations till the very last page 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z On the elegiac, pedal-steel driven ballad Playboy Mommy, they set the scene for a not-quite-apology from a "bad mother" to her dead daughter. My favourite album: Tori Amos ? From the Choirgirl Hotel 2011-08-12T11:01:06Z Its dominant mode, therefore, is elegiac rather than heroic; for a war film in the current political climate it is nothing short of remarkable. Why Dunkirk should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments was pungent, bright-toned and crisply authoritative rather than elegiac. RCO/Jansons 2010-08-31T21:00:00Z "I'm living inside a moment, not taking pictures to save it," Drake observes, in the middle of the sumptuously elegiac The Resistance, as a couple of thousand hands raise their cameraphones. Streets takeover: Charting Drake's progress 2011-02-07T12:37:43Z “World Gone By” is, of necessity, the most elegiac of the three. Review: Dennis Lehane’s ‘World Gone By’ Completes a Loose Trio of Novels 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Keys then invited members of the group Boyz II Men to the stage and sang part of their elegiac song “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” with them. Billie Eilish Sweeps Top Awards at the Grammys 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z They have nearly all moved me with their elegiac rue and emotionally layered musicality. Showgirls, a Monster and a Drag Queen: Singing Songs of Self 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Buruma reports on Japan’s elegiac theatricality with a certain Dutch bluntness and the result is a book that is luscious and precise. Coming of Age as Performance Art: An Outsider in 1970s Japan 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Zorn spread out wide across this uncertain bed, sometimes moving with an elegiac lyricism, sometimes pelting his compatriots with quick, tremulous tones. The Month in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z When he returned to the studio, he had written an elegiac composition, “Re: Person I Knew”, that is often interpreted as a tribute to LaFaro. Orrin Keepnews, producer of milestone jazz albums, dies at 91 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The evening opened with Leon Kirchner’s “Trio,” from 1954, which juxtaposes elegiac, quiet beauty — like a crumbling, dried leaf — with more expressive outbursts that grew a little strident at the end. At a classical music concert, something actually new, and also its challenges 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Its elegiacally Romantic mood and conventional ballet behavior won delighted applause from the gala audience; I’m sorry to say that I found it a tiresome mixture of clichés and isolated quirky effects. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at City Center 2012-10-17T22:19:58Z When the piece opened with a clanking burst of percussion and pianos, for example, the bride fretted about the tresses of her hair in phrases at once agitated and elegiac. Music Review: Mariinsky Choristers in ?Russian Stravinsky? 2010-04-25T22:11:00Z By turns breathtakingly brilliant and stupefying dull — funny, maddening and elegiac — “The Pale King” will be minutely examined by longtime fans for the reflexive light it sheds on Wallace’s oeuvre and his life. Books of The Times: Maximized Revenue, Minimized Existence 2011-03-31T21:14:33Z Conductor Mark Wigglesworth gave the score a masterful reading that was by turns elegiac and muscular. 2 updated visions of Wagner's last opera 2011-02-21T13:16:05Z The software also helped with the film's evocative, elegiac lighting design. Director Dean DeBlois sought depth in his solo flight on 'Dragon 2' 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Mixing the comic with the elegiac, the production shows what it might have been like if the Bloomsbury group had unwittingly been caught up in the Bosnian civil war. The White Guard | Theatre review 2010-03-24T21:30:00Z The vividly scored work features an elegiac violin solo and the “Jack motif,” a tune created by Mr. Taylor’s 3-year-old son on the piano. Music Review: Underwood New Music Readings at DiMenna Center 2012-06-04T21:56:04Z There's more to this elegiac, nearly wordless drama than that. A Ghost Story Chills-and Makes You Wonder 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Though the first Orange prize was not awarded until 1996, when the Canadian poet Anne Michaels won it for her elegiac Holocaust novel Fugitive Pieces, the founding committee celebrated its 20th birthday this year. Kate Mosse: a life in writing 2012-10-12T21:55:18Z Other elegiac poets, other poets of ecocatastrophe, revel in sensory detail, or else pursue scrambled language for chaotic times. A Poet Looks at the End of the World, and Reaches for Hope 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z In the second, the winsome solo lines flutter over elegiac oboe, guttural brass and dreamy, tuned percussion; a tender passage for piccolo and piano conjures an Irish folk song. Music Review: A New Scottish Concerto, Dressed Up and Dreamy 2011-03-03T21:49:11Z The music goes through passages of jittery riffs, burnished string chords, elegiac quietude and eruptive restlessness — complete with actual shouts and claps from the players. Review: Carnegie Hall Reopens With a Blaze From Philadelphia 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The narrator’s “wistful, elegiac recollections extend to the film’s visual texture, its brownish hues and grainy, wintry sunlight,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in March 2009. DVDs: Visconti?s ?Leopard? ? After the Prince, the Deluge 2010-06-26T02:45:00Z Critic Graham Straehle praised the sung parts as "languid, voluptuous and constantly evolving," while the instrumental passages conveyed "a deep, sinister presence with elegiac interludes and chilling silences that mark the trajectory to doom." 'Marilyn Forever' opera reveals composer Gavin Bryars' collaborative spirit 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Perhaps what this beautiful, elegiac version of “To Kill a Mockingbird” most movingly asks is: Can we ever have both? Review: A Broadway ‘Mockingbird,’ Elegiac and Effective 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Stop All the Clocks, Auden's cabaret song, isn't, as Richard Curtis assumes, about the death of a lover; it is too hyperbolically comic to be elegiac. Heartbreak by Craig Raine Digested read 2010-07-12T23:05:00Z “Hostiles” itself wants to be both a throwback and an advance, not so much a new kind of western as every possible kind — vintage, revisionist, elegiac, feminist. Review: ‘Hostiles’ Grapples With the Contradictions of the Western 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z When Mr. Znaider began the winding solo line, he played with such subdued intensity that the shifts from elegiac lyricism to craggy virtuosic flights seemed inevitable. Music Review: London Symphony Orchestra, With Colin Davis - Review 2011-10-20T21:57:49Z Ms. Karr’s narrative tone is less sensational than it is elegiac and searching. Review: ‘The Liars’ Club,’ by Mary Karr 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Characteristically, the elegiac, transparent tone of Mr. Savall’s performances evokes candlelight, contemplation, distant thunder. Jordi Savall Evokes the Past by Hearing Its Music 2010-04-30T20:35:00Z This time it was Strauss's elegiac Metamorphosen, composed nearly a century later but wrought in similar tonal overdrive. BBC SSO/Runnicles – review 2013-04-12T18:43:18Z Jesse Green, writing in The Times, called it a “beautiful, elegiac” version. Broadway ‘Mockingbird’ Precludes British ‘Mockingbird’ 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z In his poetry Hughes was torn between the mythic “vision” of Coleridge and the elegiac “authenticity” of Wordsworth. Prince of poetry 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z In this exclusive acoustic session filmed last week in Platt Fields Park, Badly Drawn Boy – a patron of the charity – performs his elegiac 2009 track, Is There Nothing We Could Do? New music exclusive: Badly Drawn Boy ? Is There Nothing We Could Do? 2011-04-04T10:54:27Z Only when Anderson re-emerges for an encore to essay a gorgeously elegiac solo violin piece that's all too brief does her music contain as much character as her words. Laurie Anderson: Dirtday! – review 2012-08-05T17:57:31Z Now, in these novellas, Frank is retired, in his late sixties, and there’s a kind of elegiac undertone to your writing. Living with Frank Bascombe: An Interview with Richard Ford 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z The vocal line shifts from stretches of elegiac lyricism to bursts of Expressionist anguish, which Ms. Fleming sang with an alluring blend of plush colorings and expressive restraint. Music Review: Expectations Are Made to Be Upended 2011-01-12T22:00:01Z In his final, elegiac vision of suburban apocalypse, Ballard once again allows us to imagine the unthinkable. Megaphone by Natalie Bakopoulos 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z Even in Monday’s biggest, highest vibrato wails — on Temple of the Dog’s “Call Me a Dog” and Audioslave’s “Wide Awake” — he sounded elegiac. Music Review: Chris Cornell, Solo, at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-23T23:03:46Z An elegiac second theme offers lyrical repose, though there’s a subtext of unsettling harmonies. Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Blazes Out a Rachmaninoff Rarity 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The award-winning author of two acclaimed story collections, Van den Berg now uses her gift for capturing the disturbingly elegiac qualities of 21st century life to heartbreaking effect in this, her first novel. Laura van den Berg's 'Find Me' captures a memorable apocalypse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Those who enjoy McMurtry’s rueful humor and understated tone of elegiac melancholy will devour the book in one setting; others will find it too slight and offhand to be genuinely commanding. Westerns by Larry McMurtry, Craig Johnson, David Fuller, Jeff Guinn Onstage musicians, moving about as freely as the Sirens, deepen the palette with elegiac strings. The cult persona of Courtney Love in 'Kansas City Choir Boy,' more concert than musical 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z The grave opening has an appropriately elegiac air. 6 Things to Do This Memorial Day Weekend 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z He did, after all, call this elegiac portrait of a vanishing gentry a comedy. Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z And it meant that stories of resistance were nearly always elegiac retreats to traditional values of community, religion or family that echoed the hodgepodge collective at the dinner table in "Don't Look Up." With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s "bunker fantasy" is inadequate 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Coates dives into this question, and while open letters often feel didactic, his elegiac prose and deep curiosity allow his book to continually open up to meaning. Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking Up 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z “The Characters” was a new kind of sketch show, less an ensemble than a series of mini-showcases, tied together by a strangely elegiac opening sequence and a commitment to weird, unruly comedy. Rediscovering an Ambitious Sketch Comedy That Never Caught On 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z And in Turner’s powerfully elegiac “Ancient Italy — Ovid Banished From Rome,” the poet Ovid is similarly peripheral, the small figure in the grip of two soldiers, most likely. That Visionary Wharf Rat, J.M.W. Turner 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z I think there's something quite elegiac about slowly gliding through the landscape, and having to get out and drag the boat at times – all that Herzogian endeavour. Swandown: two men in a pedalo 2012-07-18T17:17:15Z As much as the record celebrates the energy of cross-cultural creativity, and the inspiration of musical, political, and literary icons who resisted every enticement toward conformity, it is also elegiac. In “The Crossing” Alejandro Escovedo has crafted a rock n roll immigration epic poem 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Wos escaped lightly in comparison, and her severe, elegiac account of the symphony's three mournful texts about motherhood showed no signs of travel fatigue. LPO/Alsop; Var?se 360? 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z A first book often ends childhood: Prikryl’s gorgeous, elegiac work borrows from folklore its bright aesthetic and swift, severe logic of causation. The Best Books of Poetry from 2016 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z The piece, titled “Map,” features an elegiac text by Mr. Johnson, which reads in part: Scott Johnson, Playfully Inventive Composer, Is Dead at 70 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z Pitched artfully between the celebratory and the elegiac, it is an inarguably serious documentary with light, surrealistic flourishes that, at times, veer into exuberant goofiness. ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’ Review: A Father’s Painful, Funny Goodbye 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z More seriously, one got the feeling of a country proud of its vastness and wildness, but quietly elegiac about these qualities rather than boastful. On Canada Day, Sampling Soulpepper’s Cultural Imports 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z A similarly pervasive and lowering atmosphere becomes almost elegiac in Luke Fowler's film A Grammar for Listening. British Art Show 7: have I got spews for you 2010-10-25T20:30:00Z The work features an unusual entrance for the soloist in the opening movement, whose jaunty orchestral introduction is interrupted with a slow and elegiac violin aria. Music Review: Isabelle Faust Solos for Mostly Mozart 2013-08-11T21:27:23Z When her father dies, there is no grief or elegiac impulse, just a practical regret. The Siege by Helen Dunmore 2011-02-12T00:05:20Z Despite its thunderbolt of a title, the real focus of this elegiac memory play is on the relationship between Holt and Fischer: one an ailing, thrice-divorced author, the other his confidant, therapist and enabler. Review: In ‘Pay the Writer,’ a Portrait of the Artist Young and Old 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Norman Maclean famously ended his elegiac fly-fishing novella “A River Runs Through It” with the line, “I am haunted by waters.” Chasing Redfish Off the South Texas Gulf Coast 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Like that elegiac novel, his new book concerns an older man who looks back with a pained sense of culpability at a relationship in his youth. Review | If Flaubert reimagined ‘Cougar Town,’ this is the novel we might get 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Edwards is capable of sentiments beyond the elegiac. New Music: Kathleen Edwards, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Cate Le Bon ? CDs 2012-01-16T22:48:58Z When I saw the Met's replica of the Covent Garden production in New York recently, Kristine Opolais touchingly voiced that last elegiac note in a sombre twilight as she ventured into an uncertain future. La princesse jaune/La colombe; La rondine – review 2013-07-13T23:05:23Z Christopher Nicholson’s elegiac, beautifully restrained novel, a meditation on aging, marriage and loss, fictionalizes a well-known period in Thomas Hardy’s life. Six New Books, Including One by Christopher Buckley 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Analog is a kind of elegy for the pre-digital era of sound and photographic production and Nicholson's prints are the most elegiac components in the mix. Analog ? review 2010-12-26T00:05:14Z There’s an idyllic, elegiac, almost nostalgic quality to the French. New ?Don Carlo,? That Ever-Changing Opera 2010-11-20T19:37:00Z The orchestra played splendidly, producing rich, dark string sound in the elegiac opening of the slow movement. Music Review: Atlanta Symphony at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-06T22:13:48Z She revised the novel "Little Bird of Heaven," a characteristic story of obsession and violence, and gave it a "more elegiac and `poetic' voice - more retrospective." Joyce Carol Oates writes memoir of grief 2011-02-11T13:01:04Z In the documentary “United Skates,” black roller skating culture is depicted with both elegiac and euphoric beauty. ‘United Skates’ Review: A Rallying Cry for Black Roller Skating Culture 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z With an approach that is more elegiac than sociological, the director signals the passage of nearly seven years with the progress of the new building and the evidence of Moreno’s decline. ‘What We Leave Behind’ Review: A Father’s Final Project 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z The elegiac western of the 60s was, in fact, mourning the passing of itself. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z The songs are all based on grounding beats with rhythms rising to elegiac heights over and over again. 9 Albums You Should Listen to in October 2012-10-02T12:00:07Z It's an attractive work, with a languorous opening movement built from the intertwining flute and harp lines, a more urgent central one and brief, elegiac finale. Panufnik: Sinfonia Rustica; Sinfonia Concertante; Polonia; etc 2010-10-21T21:31:00Z The bird sometimes lands on Ms. Peretyatko’s hand, to be held aloft as the soprano sings Stravinsky’s elegiac, ornamented melodic flights. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z And it has a reputation, not entirely countered at Tate Britain, for being irresistibly English and elegiac. Awash with colour 2011-02-20T00:04:07Z It's a masterful strategy, not least because it places "Gabriel" in a tradition — not that of the elegy, exactly, since it has no whisper of redemption, but elegiac in its impulses nonetheless. Edward Hirsch's ode to a lost son 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The exhibition, writes Mizota, with its “elegiac” forms builds a “tension between flow and congestion.” Essential Arts & Culture: Chicago architecture biennial, 'The Red Shoes' hits L.A. and more PST: LA/LA 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z She acknowledges that her husband would have rejected some of her elegiac tendencies: “you won’t let me do any wayward effusive gestures that describe how you are mythic.” Confronting Grief, Mental Illness and Marginalization, in Verse 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z That task is loudest on the elegiac “Lookers,” a song about decay in all its forms: physical, emotional, spiritual. The Menzingers’ Ragged Punk Peeks in the Rearview Mirror 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The soaring ceiling and Gothic wood paneling made a splendid backdrop for a L’Wren Scott collection that had an elegiac vision of Old England. Fashion Review: As New York Fashion Week Ends, a Crisis of Identity 2012-02-17T17:58:42Z The film is “an elegiac meditation on love lost and rediscovered through misted memory,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times in August. DVD: A Version of Gogol?s Short Story ?The Overcoat? on DVD 2012-01-13T18:02:55Z What followed was the band’s version of “Warszawa,” an elegiac, mostly instrumental track from Mr. Bowie’s 1977 album “Low.” Review: Donny McCaslin’s Quartet, Fresh Off the Release of Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z This is an elegiac noir for the memory of a place, delivered in a prose as bleakly beautiful as the setting. The Storm Without by Tony Black – review 2012-07-10T15:24:01Z Edmundson's "Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game" is an elegiac account of his youthful rescue and redemption on the high school gridirons of suburban Boston in the 1960s. 'Why Football Matters' versus 'Against Football' 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z The Last Black Man in San Francisco is the charming, elegiac tale of Jimmie Fails, a man trying to hold on to a San Francisco that no longer exists. The best movies of 2019 that you haven't seen 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z The mood of the song isn’t dumb and relentless; it’s wistful, or possibly elegiac. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z But very little of the movie rang true to me, and Cahill pitches the whole thing in the mournful, elegiac mode commonly reserved for the last acts of Extremely Serious Films About Grief. Indie film discovers sci-fi spectacle 2011-08-02T21:01:00Z Like classic Hollywood westerns before it, True Grit in all its iterations has an elegiac lilt. True Grit: Rooster to the rescue 2011-02-06T21:31:00Z “Pt. 2” continues that story: It is a work of elegiac beauty, filled with vitriol, resignation and, in a few moments, hope for change on the horizon. Lil Peep Died Before Becoming Pop Royalty. His New Music May Change That. 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z In this sense, it’s the perfect place for Greene’s elegiac impulses. Tony Greene: Melancholy in paint, given new dimension at MAK Center 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Initially, the mode was elegiac, with admiring words drawn partly from the writings of punk singer and poet Patti Smith, friend and onetime partner of Mapplethorpe. Review | In three parts, an artistic reexamination of Robert Mapplethorpe 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Largely elegiac in tone, this is very much a young man's work, with all the cloying sentimentality of adolescence. Sketches of Spain by Federico Garcia Lorca – review 2013-04-05T16:40:01Z Floored Chicago’s Open-Outcry Traders There’s an elegiac poignancy in James Allen Smith’s “Floored,” a documentary about the changing face of the Chicago futures exchanges. | 'Floored': Chicago?s Open-Outcry Traders 2010-05-07T02:18:00Z Like “Phantasmagoria” and “Mr. Tambourine Man,” this piece is imbued with a sense of nostalgia and farewell: the quartet defaults, in all five moments, to a quiet elegiac whisper. Review | A worthy tribute that didn’t stint on the talent: Wolf Trap fetes Corigliano at 80 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z “Lift Me Up” is soulful, elegiac and gently haunting. Rihanna: Since She’s Been Gone 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z And the orchestra played radiantly, whether asked to be aggressive or elegiac. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Carl Nielsen’s Works 2012-10-11T22:30:40Z His first single, 2010’s “BTSTU” — used so effectively by Drake last year as the base of his song “Dreams Money Can Buy” — was elegiac and slithery. Playlist : New Releases From Ka, Popcaan, Vena and Bleeding Knees Club 2012-04-13T20:22:31Z A scene in which Ms. Lipstadt and her legal team visit Auschwitz shrouded in winter fog injects a note of elegiac sadness that is deepened by Howard Shore’s hushed score. Review: In ‘Denial,’ Confronting a Holocaust Revisionist in Court 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z He was his generation’s greatest practitioner of that gentle paradox, the elegiac comedy, which considered the passing of the civilization he grew up in. A Patrician Older Gentleman Morphs Into an Angry Young Man 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z At its best this combination produces a potently elegiac understatement, thrumming with irony. The Sweet Girl by Annabel Lyon – review 2013-01-17T09:00:01Z Both dancers talked about Scarlett’s musicality and the pleasure of dancing “With a Chance of Rain,” an elegiac work for eight dancers set to six Rachmaninoff Preludes and an Elegy for piano. After a Choreographer’s Suicide, Ballet Confronts Tough Questions 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z In the attempt to force a dramatic core on to the piece, an elegiac moment is overblown. The Dead – review 2013-01-06T18:03:54Z Yet it was her keen feeling for James Agee’s elegiac, homespun text that made the performance exceptionally moving. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z With their attention to the banality of the present, these photographs keep the show from becoming the kind of story de Waal is anxious to avoid, “some elegiac Mitteleuropa narrative of loss,” as he writes. A Hare and an Inheritance, Once Hidden, at the Jewish Museum 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Beneath the surface of the book, another, more elegiac book emerges, more interesting than any amount of prescience about political divides to come. The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Their resonance, enhanced by a structure of repetitions and pauses, gives the poems an elegiac, almost keening quality, and moves the reader to defer analysis. Poem of the week: Peter Riley 2011-07-11T10:20:00Z Last week, the New York Times carried an elegiac piece about the plight of professional snappers under the headline "For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path". Spare a Flickr of sympathy for professional photographers 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z “BoJack Horseman” recently returned with a lovely, elegiac start to its finale gallop. This one (only) goes up to 11: the Best TV of 2019 and the many runners-up 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z “The Man I Love” was created for Adele, but the elegiac ballad was thought to slow up Act II and was cut. ‘The Astaires,’ by Kathleen Riley 2012-06-01T22:36:06Z In “Memories Look at Me,” the elegiac low-tech directorial debut of the Chinese filmmaker Song Fang, a young woman travels from Beijing to Nanjing to visit her elderly parents. At New York Film Festival, Michael Haneke and Raúl Ruiz 2012-10-02T12:35:42Z Oates has contrasted her work to Joan Didion's award-winning memoir of widowhood, "The Year of Magical Thinking," which Oates has called "beautiful and elegiac," unlike the assault of grief in "A Widow's Story." Joyce Carol Oates writes memoir of grief 2011-02-11T13:01:04Z Mr. Tavener’s 1992 album “The Protecting Veil” and previous releases of Mr. Pärt’s elegiac music, on ECM, had also sold briskly. How a Somber Symphony Sold More Than a Million Records 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z “The ground is full of broken stones/The last leaf has fallen/I have nowhere to turn now,” Sade sings in “Bring Me Home,” a elegiac tune over a hip-hop beat. 2010-02-06T00:53:00Z Fights rage in almost Kandinsky-esque flurries of light and color; time stretches for the length of a single kick to encompass elegiac pop ballads. ‘My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising’ Review: Superpowers Served Sweetly 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z On the Road was an explosion of literary energy, an intensely American grabbing of possibilities, but the movie insists too much on its elegiac past tense. On the Road – review 2012-10-11T14:30:02Z Already elegiac, the rectangles are in fact teeming with ghosts. Michal Rovner charts ghostly migrations 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The film trusts too readily in Churchill's hazy, elegiac descriptions – "She shone for me like the Evening Star" – and deprives its audience of the more interesting character Lady Randolph really was. Young Winston: close, but no cigar | Reel history 2010-03-25T08:00:00Z “Regions . . .” was as tender and elegiac as “Eternally Even” is gritty and aggressive. Gather ’round the Jim James campfire: “I have this weird apocalyptic vision of once the power goes out” 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Their version is elegiac and somber, an appropriate tone to take on a song that's also about having a finite timeline to live. "Planet Earth" at 40: The perfect debut single that boldly launched Duran Duran 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z There’s an elegiac feeling to “Homeland” returning to the site of a war a generation old. ‘Homeland’ Gives the Long War a Long Goodbye 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z He is elegiac in recalling a celebration at the Guinness brewery, his grandmother’s love of the movies. ‘Walking With Ghosts’ Review: Gabriel Byrne Roams His Past 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Now they've added violin and cello to their lineup and they're more of an indie chamber pop group, with a neat line in elegiac melodrama and camply overblown lyrics with the accent on narcissistic melancholia. New band of the day (Vlks No 1,485) 2013-04-04T14:04:35Z Written 30 years after the events he witnessed as a young military intelligence officer, the book is alternately elegiac and furious, and frequently hilarious. By the Book: Ben Macintyre 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z His work achieves this in ways both stark and elegiac. L.A. artist Rodney McMillian peels back the facade on the ultimate symbol of power: the White House 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Indeed, many elegiac poems now convey an unwelcome contemporary resonance. Perspective | In a time of crisis, poetry can help focus our fears and transform ‘noise into music’ 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z But while the book admirably focuses on the sights and sounds of a soldier’s life, a closer reading reveals a deeply elegiac story. ‘The Knife,’ by Ross Ritchell 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z In a similarly elegiac vein, there will be screenings of “A Brighter Summer Day,” Edward Yang’s 1991 movie about growing up in 1960s Taiwan. Film: Don?t Think of It as Another Film Festival, Think of It as a Sampler 2010-02-19T04:54:00Z But his tone rarely varied from a casually elegiac world-weariness, within which some passages sounded fresh and surprising, and others were more stilted and artificial. Music Review: ?Four Quartets? at the Clark Studio Theater - Review 2011-11-09T23:07:59Z These biographies of Mays and Aaron, taken together, are a striking and elegiac assessment of race relations in America during the 20th century. Books Of the Times: ?The Last Hero,? Howard Bryant on Henry Aaron 2010-05-09T21:56:00Z Arterton told him how she longed for the elegiac subtlety of French cinema, “where it doesn’t really have to have much plot”. Gemma Arterton: ‘Everyone in the industry knows I'm a pain’ 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z As an elegiac vocal reckoning with the past, it creates its own dramatic category. Perspective | Here are the plays that should have been nominated for a Tony. None were on Broadway. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Eventually, his work with Mr. Jones began to eclipse his work with Ms. Wynette, beginning around 1974 with the elegiac hits “The Grand Tour” and “The Door.” Billy Sherrill, Producer Who Brought New Sound to Country Music, Dies at 78 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” can now be read as fanciful, empathetic, and elegiac. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z In “The Long Goodbye” the result is elegiac and entertaining, bittersweet and ceaselessly funny. Robert Altman’s ‘The Long Goodbye’ Is Popular Again 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject, I've always been obsessed with landscape, and I have an elegiac tone in most of my books. Book Talk: Jim Crace says last novel a generous gift 2013-02-14T11:14:29Z The collection of personal ephemera seemed a little baffling and elegiac at first, but, taken together with the paintings on view, they offer a window onto Henry's emergence as an artist. Review: Howard House's second Henry show offers a window onto artist's emergence 2010-03-15T04:01:00Z It’s rumbling and elegiac, and suggests music emanating from the raw belly of the Earth and erupting toward the heavens. Kanye West, Heretic by Nature, Finds God 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Neumann’s trademark humor was in full, subversive effect, balanced by an almost elegiac mood. Dance: David Neumann?s All-American Meal 2010-02-26T15:44:00Z With its gray palette and elegiac tone, this penultimate offering is just right for what it is: the beginning of the end. New DVDs | 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ? Part 1,' 'Country Strong' 2011-04-11T21:17:05Z In this elegiac memoir written in the wake of her father’s death, Smyth turns to Woolf’s masterpiece “To the Lighthouse” for comfort and insight. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z The book leans towards the elegiac – poetic undertaking in every sense. The Customs House by Andrew Motion – review 2012-11-25T00:05:29Z Alongside disciplined exaltation, there is an elegiac edge to this writing, like the black border on Victorian letters of condolence. Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts – review 2013-04-22T08:00:04Z It ends on an elegiac note, since by the time Mills was able to complete it, the Lees were fading fast, in separate assisted-living facilities. Harper Lee objects to new book about her by Marja Mills If Ms. Abbate and Mr. Parker had given a richer discussion of the recent and current state of opera and come to the same gloomy, wanly elegiac conclusion, you could agree or disagree with them. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z From the humid, sinuous opening in the winds, rising to a flare from the trumpet, to the noble elegiac strings intoning at the end, there’s nothing remotely off-putting about this music. Czech guest conductor leads pianist Igor Levit in strong debut at NSO 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z In others, like the second one played, I heard delicate piano flourishes suggestive of Messiaen birdcalls intriguingly contrasted with elegiac stirrings on the violin. Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Although the jazzy, percussive “Second Detail” is worlds away from the elegiac sweep of that ballet, Mr. Forsythe’s Balanchine heritage is utterly clear in this work, created for the National Ballet of Canada in 1991. Dance Review: Building on the Mastery of What Came Before 2011-05-02T22:07:56Z What put me in mind, in the early going, of brushed-steel surfaces and lonely centrifuges becomes something warmer and more elegiac as Artis’s death nears and the enormity of Ross’s loss comes into view. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z “Drunken Angel,” from her album “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road,” is elegiac and frustrated. Blaze Foley’s Inevitable Sorrow and Spiritual Success 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z For Walker fans, "Furious 7" will no doubt have an elegiac quality amid all the action and explosions. 'Furious 7': Looking back as a franchise does the same 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z By turns elegiac, tender, funny and horrifying, it is a portrait of McGowan that doubles as a complex philosophical argument about the benefits and dangers of violent social protest. Better to light a fire than curse the darkness 2011-09-14T00:14:00Z She has just released her latest work, the elegiac “Oh! Pardon Tu Dormais,” her first album of original songs in more than a decade. Jane Birkin is back with a new album, but her presence is everlasting 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z At once atmospheric, elegiac and unsettling, the work was crafted with Ms. Fleming’s creamy voice in mind, and she sang beautifully. Music Review: Renée Fleming’s Perspectives Residency at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-28T20:58:38Z The small exhibition “Non-fiction” is an elegiac tone poem, spoken in visual shades of black. Heinous history as potent muse in Underground Museum's 'Non-fiction' 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Harry and Hermione dance together wistfully, late one night, to Nick Cave's elegiac "O Children," in a scene that outdoes the rest of the series for melancholy poetry. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1": Harry Potter goes dark 2010-11-18T02:01:00Z Mr. Guettel’s elegiac work, first performed under the title “Saturn Returns” and seen only briefly in concert in New York in 1998, was not originally fashioned as a book musical. Theater Review: ?Myths and Hymns,? Directed by Elizabeth Lucas 2012-02-08T03:00:00Z It's good-looking and handsomely produced, but directionless and self-adoring, richly furnished but at the same time weirdly empty, bathed in an elegiac sunset glow of male adoration. On the Road – review 2012-10-11T14:30:02Z Ms. Wong dedicated the elegiac work to her father, who died of cancer in March, and more broadly to cancer victims and their caregivers. Music Review: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-16T19:24:56Z Slow ones were unrelievedly elegiac; fast ones, too furious to make out the details. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z A more scholarly version of this double impulse — a history-minded cinephilia that is at once elegiac and celebratory, passionate and skeptical — informs “The Story of Film: An Odyssey.” Critic?s Notebook: ?The Story of Film: An Odyssey,? by Mark Cousins, at MoMA 2012-01-31T23:43:58Z After my father died in 1991, the wilderness took on a sweet, elegiac tinge. The U.S. Issue: Personal Journeys: Hiking With a Child (and Tricks) in Tow 2011-05-13T20:13:21Z There was nothing elegiac or bleak—sometimes I cringe when my stories are described as elegiac or bleak—and I quite liked the unkindness and ludicrousness of that encounter. This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z The sadness running expectedly strong through the film hews closer to the elegiac than the miserable, a dutiful illustration of how precious life becomes the moment you realize it’s coming to an end. The 10 scariest Netflix original movies 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z From first Fourth of July tableaux to elegiac closing gesture, everyone is on the same page -- Williams’ -- around designer Rich Rose’s principal set. A smoldering 'Summer and Smoke' at Actors Co-op 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z There’s an elegiac tone to much of “M Train.” In her memoir ‘M Train,’ Patti Smith opens up about her life and loves 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z This posthumously published memoir, “The Last Holiday,” is an elegiac culmination to his musical and literary career. Books of The Times: ?The Last Holiday: A Memoir? by Gil Scott-Heron - Review 2012-01-09T23:31:50Z His effervescent enthusiasm helps new tracks Barriers, It Starts and Ends with You, an elegiac For the Strangers and the brooding Sabotage resemble peak-era Suede, but expanded. Suede – review 2013-03-05T18:18:29Z But the most sweeping — and, I expect, ultimately the most memorable — of this year’s documentaries is Spike Lee’s elegiac, messy and feisty “NYC Epicenters: 9/11-2021½,” airing in four parts on HBO. Is 9/11 a Day, or Is It an Era? 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z When the oboe turns elegiac, the strings play strummed chords, like a quasi-atonal guitar accompaniment. Music Review: Santa Fe Celebration Includes New York 2011-08-12T22:22:50Z And he is at the height of his powers, not elegiac but ecstatic, filled with the wonder of seeing the world afresh.” Arts & Leisure: Ellsworth Kelly, Explorer of Shape, Line and Color 2012-01-20T13:01:06Z The lessons in Mr. Rovelli’s book, as elegiac as they are incisive, do them justice. Review: ‘Seven Brief Lessons on Physics’ Is Long on Knowledge 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z At first sight the poem might appear to be saying something ordinarily elegiac in an ordinary way. Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z The elegiac quality of “All the Pretty Horses,” with its existential cowboys, surprised some of his admirers. Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z His wonderful book, “How to Catch a Mole,” is a beautiful, elegiac ode to a remarkable creature. Review | Life lessons from a mole — and a man who made a living catching them 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z In doing so, he turns what could’ve been a “Death Wish” remake into a thoughtful, mournful, elegiac meditation — on family, on forgiveness, on the past in general and the ’60s in particular. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z He’s discovered some modestly appealing verse that an Allied pilot left behind in a drawer, and he’s going to walk us through it, in some elegiac version of a PowerPoint presentation. Books of The Times: Poetry on His Mind, British Author Revisits His Grandfather?s War 2010-08-31T17:06:00Z Addressed to their patriarch, this elegiac meditation recounts the family’s tragic history and tenderly evokes their stately home filled with objets d’art, now a museum. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z In the context of an environmental jeremiad, her version of “Early Autumn” had an elegiac throb. Music Review: Nellie McKay on Rachel Carson and Mother Nature 2012-03-22T20:41:49Z It is an elegiac, endlessly sad scene, one that lingers. You Can Also Lead a Horse to Nirvana 2011-06-08T21:56:47Z “Gossamer,” the second Passion Pit album, adds both new gizmos and a more human touch: dizzying electronic stutters, wavery manipulated voices, chiming glockenspiels, stately pianos, female backup singers, twittering woodwinds and elegiac string sections. New Music: New Music by Passion Pit and Micachu & the Shapes 2012-07-23T22:18:24Z Though the homages and allusions are not obvious, the 18-minute work, starting with elegiac strings and ending with braying brasses, has a pleasing contour and gives the orchestra a good and imaginative workout. Review: New York Philharmonic Presents a World Premiere 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z But the evening, despite its wide range of sources, was nearly free of anxiety, or most any mood other than blandly elegiac uplift. So Much Traveling, With No Clear Destination 2011-02-11T16:57:37Z "Many poets tend to be quite elegiac, they tend to lament the state of the present, but Gillian's very positive." Gillian Clarke 'stunned' at winning Queen's gold medal for poetry 2010-12-24T00:00:01Z The game suggests that simulated life is inescapably elegiac. What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z A quartet of violas might sound like too much of a good thing, but this warm, elegiac work conjures a striking range of textures and effects and handles them masterfully. Kennedy Center Chamber Players present unusual, rarely heard music 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z But for those willing to let the mystery be, it was a beautiful, elegiac conclusion. But did he die? TV's best and worst endings since The Sopranos 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z "Deadwood" achieves the difficult feat of being elegiac without the least hint of sentimentality. Before the profane delights of "Deadwood," silver-tongued "Tombstone" rode in 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z “Mustang” represented an exhilarating respite from the dreary, downbeat and formally uninteresting movies that dominated Cannes this year, a large number of which possessed an elegiac, almost funereal tone of unresolved grief. Top honor at Cannes goes to story of Sri Lankan immigrants in France 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z In addition to these elegiac poems, and some candid and moving lyrics, Porter's work from the 1970s became more meditative, packed with allusions to myth, philosophy, art and music. Peter Porter obituary 2010-04-23T16:54:00Z “No One Is Alone” may share its opening bars with the Willy Wonka song “The Candy Man,” but its tone is elegiac, its message comforting: ”Sometimes people leave you / Halfway through the wood. Into the Woods in Central Park: al Fresco Enchantment 2012-08-10T21:45:00Z Bandoneón and vibraphone combine to elegiac effect in the gentle theme from the film “Bear’s Kiss.” Music: Classical Recordings : GIYA KANCHELI: THEMES FROM THE SONGBOOK 2011-02-20T02:01:59Z It’s an elegiac message of farewell—whether to a romantic partner who is leaving or do life itself is subject to the listener’s interpretation. Premiere: The Watkins Family Hour visits 'Brokedown Palace' 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z “Crooked Hallelujah” has an elegiac rather than a comic tone. Cherokee Women Aim for a Better Life in ‘Crooked Hallelujah’ 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z For all its pathbreaking 20th century daring, Alban Berg’s elegiac Violin Concerto — dedicated to “the memory of an angel,” Manon Gropius, who died at 18 — has a strongly emotional, Romantic core. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z “Strange Fruit,” the elegiac ode to black victims of lynching made famous by Billie Holiday. Art Review: Sanford Biggers?s Art in a Two-Borough Exhibition 2011-10-20T20:30:09Z After sitting in the water in Seaside Heights as an elegiac reminder of what happened on Oct. Summer on the Jersey Shore, After the Storm 2013-08-02T19:39:00Z And, oh, what wonders those are: vibrant and funny, desperate and elegiac, with some so lovely they will shatter your heart. ‘The Beautiful Lady’ Review: A Cabaret for the New Order 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z He elucidates, above all, the ironic dimension of his film’s title, imposing an elegiac, gently pessimistic tone on the energy and immediacy of what he sees and shows. Review: ‘In the Intense Now’ Revisits the Drama of 1968 in France and Beyond 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Not a noisy play, but one of extraordinary elegiac power. The Only True History of Lizzie Finn – review 2012-07-02T17:19:50Z Miles are covered, cities explored, people collide to loving or lethal effect, but Smith creates an elegiac, meditative tone that serves as an apt counterpoint for the story’s through-line of desperation. Who Was Nick Before ‘Gatsby’? 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z But there is something unmistakably elegiac in this dream of a bygone world. ‘The French Dispatch’ Review: Remember Magazines? 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z By the elegiac ending, most of them are literally/figuratively bruised, sadder and hopefully wiser, or at least aware. 'The Mother... With the Hat' invigorates at the Lost Studio 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The gently elegiac pieces all seem to share the same bell-curve structure, with a slow build of intensity and a gradual petering out. Music Review: Gotham Chamber Opera at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-05-23T21:54:56Z For all its elegiac sentences and gray moods, “Vesper Flights” is a book of tremendous purpose. Review | Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ — like ‘H Is for Hawk’ — is a beautiful, poignant celebration of the natural world 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z The music of “The Ship” is tolling and elegiac, while “Fickle Sun,” with lyrics about the “dismal work” of a soldier’s life, is in constant metamorphosis. Brian Eno: Ambient Sounds, but Political, Too 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The violin, the voice of this modern-day Scheherazade, enters playing elegiac lines that keep breaking into skittish flights. Review: John Adams Unveils ‘Scheherazade.2,’ an Answer to Male Brutality 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z One minute you may be hearing the elegiac and stately 21st-century works that make up “Late in the Game.” 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Another elegiac 1961 picture, “In Memory of My Feelings — Frank O’Hara,” takes its title from a lament on lost love by a gay poet who was a friend of Johns and an art-world fellow traveler. Jasper Johns: Divide and Conquer 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z The words may sound elegiac, even morose, but Ms. Bassett speaks them with a cleansing honesty that scrubs away any grimness. ‘Visitors,’ Barney Norris’s Play About Alzheimer’s 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Mark Strand, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate widely praised for his concentrated, elegiac verse, died Nov. 29 in Brooklyn. Mark Strand, acclaimed bard of absence and loss, dies at 80 The harmonically rich “Intermezzo,” an elegiac violin melody, elegantly played here by Mr. Lin, unfolds over low, dissonant rumblings in the piano. Music Review: The Chamber Music Society Presents a Program at Alice Tully Hall 2010-05-05T21:45:00Z In the elegiac documentary “After Sherman,” cameras glide along waterways, soar above marshes, contemplate churches and travel down Southern roads lined by trees, the moss hanging like braids. ‘After Sherman’ Review: A Family Reckoning 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z That may sound strange, given the grizzled and sardonic heft that Ford brings to the party, but his role has an elegiac strain, too, and he knows it. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Reviewed 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Given China’s rapid urbanization, Mr. Zhao’s film has an inevitably elegiac undertow. Movie Review | 'Ghost Town': Zhao Dayong Fleshes Out Life in Remote China 2010-03-15T04:40:00Z There are serenely elegiac piano melodies, counterpoint in plinking bell tones and choirs of sampled voices. Nine Inch Nails Faces the Pandemic With Hope, Despair and Noise 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Uneasily elegiac, the piece folds in short quotes from Chopin and Mozart without becoming cute or emptily postmodern. Music Review: Recently Fresh Fruit, Given a Chance to Ripen 2011-05-27T23:04:58Z “Monrovia, Indiana” is not precisely about any of those things, but it carries intimations of them, elegiac strains amid the doggerel of daily life. Review: ‘Monrovia, Indiana’ Is a Sharp, Lyrical Look at Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The movie opens on a day seemingly like any other, although there’s a pronounced elegiac cast to the instrumental music and the piercing violin notes. ‘Revoir Paris’ Review: Recovering Fragments of Memory 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z A condition that, precisely because it is poetic and elegiac, makes history itself the stuff of life experience. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z At the same time, its use here reminds the reader of other elegiac poems – Gray's Elegy, perhaps, also in iambic pentameter and rhymed ABAB. Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z The response has run the gamut between rank speculation and elegiac mourning. Perspective | If Daniel Day-Lewis is really done acting, is it any surprise he did it on his own terms? 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Hynes’s songs point directly toward their influences, yet remain strangely light in ego, gentle and opaque and elegiac to the bone. Review: ‘Blood Orange and Friends’ at the Apollo 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Vinson became rapturously elegiac on the ensuing Kreisberg ballad, Being Human, while drummer Stranahan's mesmerising body language made him look as if he was imagining a different pulse to the one he was playing. Jonathan Kreisberg – review 2013-03-13T18:21:20Z This exchange captures some of the tone of Ms. Gornick’s funny and elegiac and truth-dealing new memoir, “The Odd Woman and the City.” Review: ‘The Odd Woman and the City’ by Vivian Gornick 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Eventually I found myself in Trafalgar Square on a warm summer evening, an elegiac and Duino evening, an evening redolent of youth and hope and regret. Short story: Message in a (Klein) Bottle by Russell Hoban 2012-07-19T16:04:37Z But mostly it’s a bruised, elegiac look back at a Democratic defeat. Television Review | 'The Senators? Bargain': On HBO2, ?Grand? Legislation Goes Wrong 2010-03-23T21:40:00Z “A Stone Sat Still” pulled off something similar yet more profound for a mere rock, ending on an elegiac note of loss and memory. Opening the Door: 3 Picture Books Look at Life on the Other Side 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z The piece certainly suits Ms. Mutter, who played the elegiac solo line that rises from the haunting opening orchestral part searchingly, her languid trills echoed by the orchestra. Music Review: Pairing Wolfgangs From Two Eras 2010-11-19T22:50:00Z Davis combined realist figuration with touches of painterliness and color that added a resonant symbolism and elegiac calm to his scenes of almost-everyday African-American life. The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Both episodes approach those yearnings for a better life in a decidedly more elegiac fashion than “Us,” which uses violence to demonstrate the overthrow of the ruling class. ‘Us’ Reflects a Mirror Image of ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z On Sunday two choreographers offered new takes on the events of that devastating day with elegiac, site-specific dances. Dance Review: ?Table of Silence Project 9/11? and ?9/11 Dance? - Review 2011-09-12T23:28:21Z The saddest thing about this elegiac documentary may be the credit it extends its audience. Review: Ken Burns’s ‘Vietnam War’ Will Break Your Heart and Win Your Mind 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z To the right hangs Ed Ruscha’s elegiac image of a rural fence under a gray sky intended to resemble a scratchy, noir movie frame. Art Review: Linde Family Wing at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Review 2011-09-22T22:25:49Z It has not just one but at least two contenders led by Martin Scorsese’s elegiac crime epic “The Irishman” and Noah Baumbach’s intimate divorce drama “Marriage Story.” Oscar nominations are Monday morning: Here’s what to expect 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z There are winding melodic lines of elegiac beauty, solemn progressions of melancholic harmony and tumultuous bursts of intensity. Music Review: Rendering Elgar?s Mercurial Impressions 2010-12-10T22:00:00Z For a half-hour, he shouted his way through his cache of SoundCloud hits: the sleepily elegiac “Water on My Face,” the woozy “I Don’t … ,” the scrambled “Ice Water.” Lil Yachty, Lil Uzi Vert and Playboi Carti, Oddball Rap’s Children, at Play 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z This ruminative 12-minute score begins and ends with an elegiac melody, inspired by Hindustani musical styles. Review: Young Concert Artists Is Back, With a Superb Pianist 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Above all, this staging beautifully captures the elegiac tone of the book with its sense of the dissolving, essentially agrarian American Dream. Gatz – review 2012-06-14T06:00:06Z “Blackthorn,” an elegiac, old-man’s western, takes as its starting point another, equally romantic myth: that he survived and lived till a ripe old age in Bolivia. | 'Blackthorn': ?Blackthorn,? Starring Sam Shepard ? Review 2011-10-06T23:45:30Z “The Expectations,” an elegiac début by Alexander Tilney, reserves its disenchantment for a later stage in the process: the moment of arrival on campus. How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Sometimes that’s accidental, the elegiac being a favored mode of poets. Ciaran Carson’s Urgent, Hopeful, Final Lines 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z He concludes that the “elegiac new single may be the most surprising, perfect and welcome comeback in rock history.” David Bowie Releases First Song in 10 Years 2013-01-08T14:23:42Z “The world is going in all directions/Like bottles shattered on the floor,” he sings in the elegiac “All You Ever Wanted Was Tomorrow.” Dave Matthews Band’s Grown-Up View of Love and Dread 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Steven Beck, an excellent pianist and champion of contemporary music, was the committed soloist, deftly revealing the elegiac and frenetic moods of this rhythmically and harmonically complex work. Music Review: Charles Wuorinen?s Works at the Guggenheim Museum 2012-02-21T22:57:52Z Mr. Tetzlaff’s wiry tone is not the most luxurious sounding, but it’s ferociously articulate and agile, as in his fluent transition in the Schumann’s second movement from elegiac to playful and back again. Review: Tetzlaff Trio: Music That’s Off Kilter, Even Boozy 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z And it’s in those quiet moments that the elegiac power of “The Irishman” really takes hold. ‘The Irishman’ Review: The Mob’s Greatest Hits, in a Somber Key 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z In its elegiac final movement, the sonata had a stateliness that recalled the piece Mr. Kuderna performed at the beginning of the concert, an addition to the printed program. Music Review: Memorials and Reveries in a Cozy Cabaret Setting 2011-08-22T22:39:58Z But while “Ignorance” experimented with fractured, jazzy rhythms, “Endless Time” echoes through a sparse negative space — just a haunting piano accompaniment and Lindeman’s elegiac vocals. glaive Showcases His Less Hyper Pop, and 13 More New Songs 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z There were elegiac notes in Richard Eyre's superb production of The Dark Earth and the Light Sky, but it was mainly to Chekhov that directors turned to show the waning of an era. The best theatre of 2012: Susannah Clapp's choice 2012-12-15T21:00:02Z In short, the Charlottesville Lee monument is far less about mourning a hero and a gone-but-not-forgotten culture than about using elegiac sentiment to sugarcoat a secretly seditious present. We Need to Move, Not Destroy, Confederate Monuments 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Tretheway’s narration is elegiac in remembering her mother — and steely as she reads the chilling transcripts of her mother’s telephone conversations with her killer. Best audiobooks of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z In its place was an elegiac elegance that never presumed. From Givenchy and Alexander Wang, Competing Visions of New York 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Then she sings an elegiac lullaby to her dead son, though she can’t help slipping into bursts of anger. A Soldier’s Racially Charged Suicide Becomes a Powerful Opera 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The film returns to this scene, which doesn’t advance the plot, again and again, and the effect is, helplessly, elegiac. Adapting John le Carr? Novels for the Movies 2011-09-18T00:03:03Z He writes with elegiac wit about middle-class, mostly educated men and women whose lives have begun to grind them down. Jeffrey Eugenides’s Short Stories Salvage Wit From Life’s Grind 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s warmer, plainer and more elegiac than his admirers may have foreseen. Books of The Times: J. G. Ballard’s Memoir, ‘Miracles of Life’ 2013-02-05T21:10:03Z This sweeping story twists, turns and subverts readers’ expectations, while also growing into something else: an elegiac novel about a blighted city. Best thriller and mystery books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The lyrics felt elegiac—as wistful and remote as the ideals of “Imagine”—but the music said fight. Elvis Costello at the Beacon: Misery and Splendor 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The album’s high point is “Cyan,” which is elegiacally pretty and slinky smooth. Critic?s Notebook: Ital and Kindness, Indie Acts Moving to a Disco Beat 2012-03-20T22:16:48Z The play’s elegiac view of pastoral life and vanished agricultural traditions seems ideally tailored to foster a sense of history and cultural identity in young audiences. | 'Farm Boy': ?Farm Boy,? ?War Horse? Sequel, at 59E59 Theaters - Review 2011-12-15T22:23:16Z Her account of her relationship with Mapplethorpe runs like a parallel narrative and lends the book an elegiac appeal far beyond the limits of the genre. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z But such moments were rare in a show packed with dim, overblown crossover attempts, like “If Rap Gets Jealous,” and elegiac testimonials, like “Fatima.” Music Review | K?Naan and Wale: At Fillmore, K?Naan?s Boasts, Wale?s Frisky Formalism 2010-04-01T21:34:00Z And it was an elegiac, poetic and beautiful finish. Marc Jacobs marks a poetic end to a fashion season of reassuring upheaval 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Besides “Wooden Ships,” the album included two other songs by Mr. Crosby, the shimmering “Guinevere” and the elegiac “Long Time Gone,” which he wrote after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. David Crosby, Mainstay of Two Classic Rock Bands, Dies at 81 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z While Hummingbird holds on to the unique sound of the band, it piles more synthesiser and electronic influences on top of the elegiac harmonies and sweeping percussion - the kind audible in Heavy Feet. Local Natives: 'better than ever' 2013-01-30T08:37:00Z But there is also something elegiac about the exhibit, a reminder that delis and the food they served are no longer as prevalent as they were 50 years ago, even in Jewish life. The Jewish Deli: An American Tale Told in Pickles and Pastrami 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z If these fragments attain a particular elegiac gravity, Shephard never allows them to stray into unearned sentiment. Sam Shepard's dual-voiced farewell 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z It touched everyone who stopped to listen to the elegiac music, and to witness this haunting vision of sailors crossing the bar. 55th Venice Biennale – review 2013-06-01T23:05:00Z “Only in the rural south, and in rural New England, do American houses willfully contain the history of a family,” he wrote in the introduction to “Eagle Pond,” a tender and elegiac book. Donald Hall’s Life Work 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z The remarkable thing about these vignettes, complex, anticipatory, elegiac, is that they are rendered with all the deadpan flatness of a DIY manual. Patrick Caulfield/Gary Hume – review 2013-06-06T06:00:05Z The empathetic, elegiac, low-budget film is a coming-of-age story about Chiron, a poor, gay, African-American boy from Miami, told in three segments. Mahershala Ali? You’ve Surely Seen His Face 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z For a more elegiac account of poverty, try Knut Hamsun's classic Hunger – the title says it all. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z Mr. Shalhoub infuses his performance with an elegiac tenderness that never descends into the maudlin. Theater Review: ‘Golden Boy,’ Directed by Bartlett Sher 2012-12-07T03:00:19Z Why we like him: Shot in the cabins, dusty roads and swamps of the Mississippi Delta, his elegiac film installation Crossroads from 2009 sees Blandy pursue the myths surrounding blues legend Robert Johnson. Artist of the week 107: David Blandy 2010-09-29T15:01:00Z The strongest stories — “Austin,” “Vines,” “Rhinebeck” and “Silhouettes” — are shot through with almost subliminal strangeness and build toward endings of uncanny attenuation, endings worthy of Raymond Carver in his later, elegiac mode. Three New Story Collections Make Place a Protagonist 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z In the final scene, as muse and artist approach each other from either end of a human avenue, Mr. Taylor’s drama rises to its elegiac summit. Dance Review | Paul Taylor Dance Company: A Poet of the Body, Bending All the Rules 2010-02-25T22:44:00Z It’s an elegiac film about the painful process of creating music and the end of a creative life. The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z James Ijames’s beautiful, elegiac play ponders the unjustified killings of black youth by police officers through an unblinking, everlasting gaze. 12 Streamable Plays That Depict Black Lives Pierced by Racism 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s the kind of uncanny, elegiac image we’ve seen in a thousand dystopias. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Latest Novel Imagines Life in an Underwater New York 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z I can’t erase, from my ear, his elegiac line “Quick eyes gone under earth’s lid.” ‘Odd, Unpopular and Reticent’: The Books That Sing to Wayne Koestenbaum 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z A subdued, elegiac second theme appears, but does not halt the defiant exuberance of the movement, which carries through a manic waltz episode. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Carl Nielsen Symphony 2012-06-15T21:52:06Z The program opened on an elegiac note with Bill Ryan’s layered cello composition, played by David Moss. Satellite Collective Puts on Varied Program at BAM Fisher 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Lin and Mr. Marica delicately highlighted the harmonic quirks of the first movement; Mr. Lin played the elegiac viola solo beautifully. Amphion String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Williams astutely interleaved Bagatelles by Jones with those of Bartók, emphasising the metrical complexities they both favoured, as well as an elegiac strain. Llyr Williams – review 2012-07-18T16:46:24Z Thanks to them and the dancers, “Sunset, o639 Hours” becomes beautifully elegiac, taking us into the hearts of people who lived decades ago and are now largely forgotten. ‘Sunset, o639 Hours,’ a BalletX World Premiere 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Sometimes elegiac, sometimes bounding forward, the tunes on “Jesup Wagon” are some of the loveliest compositions of his career, built around overlapping ribbons of melody. James Brandon Lewis, a Saxophonist Who Embodies and Transcends Tradition 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z But amidst the madness they recorded an album, If I Was, that is both evocative and elegiac. The Staves: 'Bon Iver gave us cabin fever' 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Her warm sound carried the elegiac vocal lines beautifully and mingled with the diaphanous, tingling electronic sounds. Review: A Composer’s Mystical Music Gets the Space It Demands 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Like Sicario and Hell or High Water before it, the film concerns individuals trying to maintain rule of law in impossible circumstances, its elegiac tone pockmarked with bursts of high tension and sudden, shocking violence. Taylor Sheridan: 'The big joke on reservations is the white guy that shows up and says: "My grandma is Cherokee"' 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z It’s the haunting, elegiac story of Jimmie Fails — playing a version of himself — a young man trying to hold onto a sense of home in San Francisco. ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’ Review: Lost in a Dream City 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z The video for “A Lot,” 21 Savage’s elegiac single, takes place at a formal dinner and party in a cloud-high mansion, a lavish and exuberant celebration of black wealth. 21 Savage, American Rapper 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Before the final chorus, the dying Wormley and fatherly Whitman bond in a transfixing scene, music alive with spiraling riffs and elegiac vocal lines. Review: Matthew Aucoin’s ‘Crossing’ Is a Taut, Inspired Opera 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z We’ve been encouraged to read it only as an elegiac romance – which it is – but it’s also a very funny book with a great deal of facetious wit. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z Strauss was 81 and ailing, and Europe lay in ruins, in March 1945, when he began work on his seething, elegiac “Metamorphosen.” So You Want to Be a Socially Distanced Orchestra 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Afterward, I wanted to fall into a poet’s carefully crafted, insightful, and at times elegiac words. Poetry in a Time of Protest 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z We also wanted our song to be elegiac rather than a rave, but we didn’t want it to be a dirge. ‘Being Boring’: the Path to a Pop Elegy 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z This poignant and elegiac book is a worthy finale to an extraordinary series. Crime fiction: the return of Thursday Next, Maisie Dobbs and Kurt Wallander 2011-03-09T23:47:07Z ‘MOONLIGHT’ Bathed in blue and anguish, Mr. Jenkins’s elegiac film traces a single life across three chapters. The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The music is simplistic; the beats are bland; the emotional landscape is vaguely, well, elegiac. Music Review: D J Spooky’s ‘Nauru Elegies’ at Metropolitan Museum 2013-01-20T22:29:46Z One of Preston's favourite writers is F Scott Fitzgerald and that influence is favourably apparent in the novel's elegiac tone – there is much lost here, the least of which is money. This Bleeding City by Alex Preston ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:02Z Her voice was deeper, elegiac and elegantly weary. Joni Mitchell Reclaims Her Voice at Newport 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z While an elegiac theme — overt or subtle — runs through each of those volumes, it’s in this latest that the award-winning poet and critic confronts death head-on. | A Poet’s Ode to His Late Father 2014-03-03T18:54:15Z If it is hard to read the tone of these late works, the mood of the final gallery at Tate Modern is beautifully elegiac. Lichtenstein: A Retrospective – review 2013-02-24T00:05:48Z Finally there was the Vicar himself, played with elegiac precision by Tom Hollander. Rev: preaching to the converted 2011-04-05T10:58:25Z Diamond, meanwhile, finds America’s favorite pastime to be ripe for life lessons and elegiac analogies. Review | ‘Toni Stone’ takes some big swings in Arena Stage’s winning return to live theater 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Inside the hall, where the mood was more exhilarated than elegiac, an unspoken question hung in the air: Where did all that time go? Music Review | 'Sondheim: The Birthday Concert': A Little Birthday Music for Sondheim 2010-03-16T19:50:00Z Jarrod Lee made an imposing Loudspeaker Voice, seated in the back row of the orchestra and joining in the elegiac final choral number, which was one of the highlights. Review | The In Series aims to make ‘Atlantis’ great again 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z “Paul’s protean ability to work across multiple platforms from his videos to his more elegiac light pieces and community-based performances is what particularly stood out,” said Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim’s deputy director and chief curator. Perils, Platforms and a Prize 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Since the release of her National Book Award-winning memoir “Just Kids” in 2010, Patti Smith has arguably been known as much for her elegiac writing as for her contributions to punk rock. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Enthusiastic applause for the Schubert brought the duo back for a single lovely encore, the elegiac, passacaglia-like “Mercy” by Max Richter. Hilary Hahn’s recital: variety, precision, passion 2014-04-30T15:39:56Z The episode was an elegiac bookend to the earlier Block Island excursion, and it continued in the autumnal, prestige-picture style of last week’s Montauk-set hour. ‘The Affair,’ Season 3, Episode 5: Back to Block Island 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z By turns elegiac and erotic, the collection is also lush with language whose music evokes the landscape. Confronting Grief, Mental Illness and Marginalization, in Verse 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The first movement of Ysaÿe’s Sonata No. 2 features flowing arpeggios that Mr. Siem labored over; in the elegiac second movement he lacked any discernible emotion at all. Music Review: Charlie Siem, Violinist, at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-06-26T21:11:39Z December,” an elegiac reverie with Mr. Akinmusire, slowly gathers density: capitalizing on the artists’ technique, on the sculptural potential of a sound loop and on the reverberant qualities of their setting. With ‘The Seasons,’ Ben Wendel Redefines the Musical Encounter 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z I basically really enjoyed this movie, even while lamenting that I was enjoying it under mendacious premises and that there was something fundamentally cynical about its elegiac, retrospective tone. “X-Men: Days of Future Past”: Superheroes face the sunset 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z The pieces had the yearning richness associated with elegiac sequences in independent films, but they meandered, and their emotional payoffs — melancholy in the slow moments, exuberant uplift in the fast — felt unearned. Music Review: Classical-Pop Border, No Guards in Sight 2011-01-20T22:49:21Z But mostly, “Last Weekend” is an elegiac ode to affluence. ‘Last Weekend’ Is an Elegiac Ode to Affluence 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Montgomery switched violins for the quartet’s performance of her lively “Strum,” which featured insistent plucked rhythms and elegiac melodies. Music Review: Sphinx Virtuosi Play Piazzolla and Golijov at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-10T21:10:36Z The soundtrack ends with a recent, elegiac song from Guy: “A Few Good Years.” A Buddy Guy Soundtrack 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z “The Fabelmans” didn’t set the festival on fire; its restraint and lightly elegiac mood are unlikely to get most pulses racing, even if these qualities serve it extremely well. In Toronto, Films by Women About Women, but That’s Where the Similarities End 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z “Small Memories” has an elegiac tone, one that is suggested by something the writer’s elderly grandmother said to him: “The world is so beautiful, it makes me sad to think I have to die.” Books of The Times: A Cautious Memoirist Who Ends With a Laugh 2011-05-10T20:49:38Z Robert Yeoman's cinematography, intentionally or not, captures the golden glow of Homer's paintings with a poetic, elegiac power. Moonrise Kingdom – review 2012-05-26T23:10:01Z All elements combine in the closing, elegiac Sinfonietta No 2, neoclassical influences rubbing shoulders with radical writing for the clarinet. Penderecki: Sinfoniettas; Oboe Capriccio; Three Pieces in the Old Style; Serenade; Intermezzo ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:51Z Perhaps not as elegiac as Nabokov — but unlike Nabokov, he’s still here. Here’s Looking at You, Grid: A History of Crosswords and Their Fans 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z She is not embraced for her simplicity, but rather for the way her elegiac, gloomy pop telegraphs layers of meaning and implies both actual and imagined histories. Review: Lana Del Rey, a Character No More 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z In this fantastical piece the soloist shifts from passages of humming and “Rumtum de diddle” nonsense, to elegiac melodic writing, to passages where the voice leaps about in a super-high register. Music Review: Oliver Knussen in Composer Portraits 2013-04-19T21:04:30Z Shteyngart deftly pivots from this hilarious, tragicomic parody to a mood closer to the wistful, elegiac tones of his beloved Russian master, Chekhov. Review | Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Our Country Friends’ is the darkly brilliant comedy we need right now 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z But the charm of “Radio Unnameable” is, finally, elegiac. Movie Review: ‘Radio Unnameable,’ a Documentary About Bob Fass of WBAI 2012-09-18T21:50:25Z The sequence is surprisingly consoling, even though its culmination — “September 11,” the elegiac, supple exhibition at PS1 — contains little art that pertains specifically to Sept. Critic?s Notebook: 9/11 Exhibitions Rekindle Grief in 3 Ways 2011-09-10T00:00:13Z Ellis’ delineation of the case against Daniel Holden, “Rectify”’s protagonist, could not be more different than the elegiac grace of the show itself. Poetic crime drama “Rectify” courts “Serial” fans with hard-nosed companion podcast 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z “The saddest thing about this elegiac documentary may be the credit it extends its audience,” James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Vietnam War’ and ‘Vice Principals’ 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The movie is an elegiac meditation on a Japan that no longer exists—if it ever truly did. The Most Popular Anime of All Time Comes to America 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z By early 1918, a poem called “Memory” dated Feb. 1, 1918, exuded an elegiac tone, all the more so in the handwritten pages of a notebook contrasting his youthful fecklessness with the experience of war. Siegfried Sassoon’s World War I Diaries Become Available Online 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z At other times, the quartet created a gentle drone that underpinned the elegiac intertwining of the polyphonic vocal lines. Review: Hints of Eternity at Trinity Wall Street 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z This is not just because the artist was working on the show right up to his death last year, at the age of 89, though this gives the title elegiac overtones. Richard Hamilton: The Late Work; Mel Bochner: If the Colour Changes – review 2012-10-13T23:06:10Z The darkness and blurring created by this archaic process add to the elegiac mood. Love and Loss Through the Photographer’s Lens 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Then he drew the curtain on his UK touring career with an extended, elegiac version of Rocket Man, as fireworks echoed around the site. The sun goes down on Elton John with a rhapsodic Glastonbury set 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z An elegiac version of the Christian hymn Morning Is Broken provided an emotional high point, as rays of sun fought through the grey clouds that have gathered over Glastonbury since lunchtime. Cat Stevens soothes an exhausted Glastonbury in the legend slot 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Flewellen waxes elegiac, though, in recollections about investigating the mysteries of the deep. For this California archaeologist, Black history isn't a political weapon. It's a personal inspiration 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z As the book draws to a close, its mood grows elegiac, hinting that, along with all his generation’s exclusionary cruelties, we’ve also lost some of their fury on behalf of greatness. Review | A memoir about a godlike father and the literary scene he ruled over 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z After the elegiac crime-thriller “Out of the Furnace” and masterful western “Hostiles,” the shrewd Louis Bayard adaptation marks the duo’s third collaboration, continuing their joint interest in risk-taking cinema of disquieting themes. 'The Pale Blue Eye' explained: Inside Netflix's new Edgar Allan Poe mystery 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z It's oscillating synths and elegiac vocals became a celebration, a catharsis, a release - and helped inform the more club-focussed sound of Actual Life 3. Sound Of 2023: Fred Again's emotive electronica earns second place 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z The choristers performed his elegiac anthem on the most public stage imaginable. Queen's funeral composer: I had to keep my work secret 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z While it is set along the Texas-Mexico border during the 1850s, its concerns have more to do with the brutality of the Southern novels than with the more elegiac tone of the later Western books. A complete, opinionated reader's guide to Cormac McCarthy's novels 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z On the Friday before Thanksgiving, a form of elegiac madness swept over Twitter’s power users in media and academia. Opinion | Has Elon Musk succeeded by luck — or does he know what he’s doing? 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z “Stella Maris,” Cormac McCarthy’s second novel this year, is a small and frequently elegiac novel, our book critic writes. Trump’s Far-right Embrace 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z It’s set in the real world of the 20th century yet filled with the same elegiac language and drop-dead sentences of his 19th century “Border Trilogy” and the apocalyptic future of “The Road.” Cormac McCarthy, 89, has a new novel — two, actually. And they're almost perfect 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The tone throughout is elegiac, asare many of his concerted scores. Review: John Williams, at 90 and with a new violin concerto, is celebrated at L.A. Phil gala 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z But in this case, given the elegiac, tragic nature of the material, it feels entirely apt. Review: Ken Burns issues a chilling warning with ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’ 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Garza manages to expertly capture a range of voices in this stunning and elegiac polyphonic novel published in August. 11 books to read during Hispanic Heritage Month 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Wilson was drawn to its elegiac potential as an expression of grief for Ukrainian soldiers lost in battle. A defiant orchestra of Ukrainian artists hopes Putin can hear them 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z The pieces are elegiac, referencing the pollution that has choked Lima’s rivers and the pandemic-era loss of shared experiences, including the canceled concerts and movie screenings advertised on the posters. In Lima, a Home and Studio That Remains a Work in Progress 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Too many columns here focus on anodyne speeches by Hall of Fame inductees and elegiac tributes to recently departed old-timers. Review | A collection that captures baseball’s heroes, and their human stories 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z In the end, this book is not an erotic thriller, nor a comment on #MeToo, nor an elegiac coming-of-age story about surviving a parent’s death. Review: A coming-out story in MeToo camouflage: Michelle Hart's shadowy, sly debut novel 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z There is an elegiac quality as Robinson makes his final rounds, burying some lingering resentments and asserting his place as baseball’s conscience. Review | Jackie Robinson’s huge talent and fierce dedication to civil rights 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Pop presents a different side, one that’s sweeter and more elegiac, and it seems to reflect the real Hinds, who’s unfailingly modest, his voice a gentle whisper. Ciarán Hinds taps his own memories to play 'Belfast's' Pop 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Presley sees his painting in the album’s “elegiac lyrics, … strong-willed and entrancing imagery” and “wistful, haunted, beauty.” Cate Le Bon’s ‘Pompeii’ helped her find light in the darkness of the pandemic 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z I mean, you talk about how the Star was a great newspaper but you never strike that elegiac tone of, like, "Everything was better then, everything is worse now." Legendary reporter Carl Bernstein on journalism, Trump and history: "The truth is not neutral" 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z “I really don’t want to get into the sepia saga business,” he added, “writing up some elegiac Mitteleuropa narrative of loss.” Review | At the Jewish Museum, an exhibition as much about what’s missing as what’s there 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z “I don’t want to be writing about the West from far away anymore. And I didn’t want to write about it in an elegiac or nostalgic mode.” It's harder to love up close: Claire Vaye Watkins is the new voice of the American West 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Thubron’s elegant, elegiac and poignant book recounts his journey from the river’s source in the Mongolian mountains to Nikolaevsk, where it meets the Okhotsk Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. Review | A 2,000-mile journey through Russia’s lonely borderlands with China 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z In April, the anniversary of my mother’s death, I longed for something elegiac in tone; I ended up reading W.S. My Secret Weapon Against the Attention Economy 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Like them, his mood is both elegiac and apocalyptic. Column: The Atlantic says 'the California Dream is dying.' So what else is new? 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z “For all its elegiac sentences and gray moods, ‘Vesper Flights’ is a book of tremendous purpose,” wrote Washington Post reviewer Jake Cline. Float away from your front porch or armchair with these 6 brand-new paperbacks 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Remaining in elegiac mode, we may note that Sunday marked four weeks since the summer solstice. Heat wave ends on fair day for July 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z That so many stories of friendship between artists are written posthumously by the surviving friend, bequeathed with all of those shared memories, accounts for their elegiac tone. How Friendship Helps Us Transcend Ourselves 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Frazier’s intimate knowledge of suffering and keen awareness of her own mortality suffuse the series with a somber poetry, but “The Notion of Family” is not elegiac. LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z Unplugged “unlights” have an inescapable elegiac quality, but even that is more incandescent than mournful. Review: Robert Irwin's virtuoso light art, minus the light 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z As an artifact from a pre-Stonewall past, it takes on an elegiac aura of tribute, with its very successful cast members honoring an earlier, less liberated generation. New this week: Mariah Carey, Gloria Steinem & ‘South Park’ 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Finally, and elegiacally, Professor of English Michael Theune commented to the Chicago Tribune, "It is a bad day. The faculty's control of the curriculum has been taken away." Student debt and the end of the liberal arts dream 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z It always gives us a potent intensification or distillation of some aspect of it: tragic, comic, elegiac, erotic or, in the case of the art of anxiety, a sense of disorientation and shadowy, intangible menace. Perspective | How to cope in an anxious age: Try Hitchcock, Munch and Poe 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z He couldn’t have chosen a more tender, elegiac note to go out on. New movies to stream this week: ‘Extraction,’ ‘Driveways’ and more 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z For a song that sprung from such a songwriting sprint, it holds incredible, elegiac beauty. 7 Essential tracks from John Prine, folk music’s Mark Twain 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z “In the good years, which were approximately from 1996 to 2010, the financial returns enabled smaller farmers like myself to stay viable,” French said, striking an elegiac tone. How Johnson & Johnson companies used a ‘super poppy’ to make narcotics for America’s most abused opioid pills 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Actual candles bolted in a loose target pattern to Herzog’s painted book covers lend an elegiac, melancholic atmosphere. Review: George W. Bush is her 'blue boy.' How artist Katie Herzog throws some serious shade 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Or the elegiac sequence in which all the neon signs of Los Angeles come on at dusk — hilarious? Is 'Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood' a comedy? The Golden Globes vote yes 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z The video is elegiac, the absurd suit’s heaviness equaling that of a romantic partner at the time. Review: Nayland Blake turns bunnies and shoes into meditations on sex, power and prejudice 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z He set up as a trainer at the track with just three horses back in 1979, and his typically eloquent assessment of the course’s recent travails earlier this week had an elegiac quality too. American racing holds its breath for date with destiny at Breeders’ Cup 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The spot generally struck an elegiac note of finality. Final ‘Rise of Skywalker’ trailer debuts 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z |
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