| 单词 | mournful |
| 例句 | Sitting down on the ice, he raised his head and howled the most mournful cry I had ever heard. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His tiny sister, clinging to her mother with both hands, exactly like a baby monkey, sat looking over her shoulder at him with large, mournful eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The first song started all mournful trumpets and violins. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z A warhom sounded in the far distance, a deep mournful note that chilled the soul. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “A funeral isn’t very gay, but when it gets rained on—that’s really mournful.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z All around them, the mournful shapes of men and women rose from the ground or emerged from holes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The sparrow remained behind, singing his mournful song of lost love. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The chickens lay in a mournful row with their legs tied together. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he played a slow, mournful melody on it, concentrating hard, biting his lip, leaning over the instrument and moving his shoulders with the rhythm. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Then came April and Melanie as the mourning populace, scattering flowers and chanting, “Weep for Prince Pete-ho-tep—fallen in battle,” in a high mournful wail. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, while we finish supper, Shiloh’s going around the table, putting his nose in everyone’s lap, looking mournful, waiting for somebody to slip him something to eat. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They sear and singe images on her retinas: furious screams, wails of sorrow, the slow, mournful crawl of cars. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In the bell tower the pigeons cou-rouing made a mournful sound. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He sailed a rough chopping sea above which clouds drooped and drifted in vast mournful veils. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The mournful howling of the wolves was heard again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Doom, doom, doom the drum-beats rolled behind, mournful now and slow; doom! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A gust of wind blew through the treetops, making a mournful sound. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z And then there was a mournful noise, and a clunking sound, and Adelaide’s little brother’s head was buried in his arms on the desk. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z With a mournful melody, it tells of a rabbi teaching the Hebrew alphabet to his young students, just the way I was learning those letters in heder. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z In London, night came too soon, it hung in the morning air like a threat, and then in the afternoon a blue-gray dusk descended, and the Victorian buildings all wore a mournful air. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She doesn’t have to stay locked into place, into this mournful, drawn-out, low-grade misery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I feared vague sounds—faint footsteps, mournful sighs, low whispers. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The sisters slumped in the seat of the wagon as they passed by, and their mournful cries were as much for themselves as for the fate of their sister. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Should he return with his burden, home, to where already the hot wires were flashing, speaking, rattling the mournful message? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z After that he cried, a thin mournful yipping sound he had not made since he was a puppy. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Some passed overhead with mournful cries, returning to their homes among the rocks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The sound of timbers splitting filled the air, followed by another mournful moan. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Robb went to the window, but as he reached for the shutters another sound was added to the mournful howling of the direwolves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It has a mournful harping note sometimes, and the very persistence of it, that eternal roll and thunder and hiss, plays a jagged tune upon the nerves. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The only sounds came from the band, not spirited or militaristic, but an almost mournful wail. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z No living person was in sight, but the same mournful sounds of distress met me as I passed along. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, he had such potential,” the ghosts of the future lament in mournful voices, shaking their heads. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Lupita looked up at the woman, who was gazing at her out of mournful eyes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Late at night, when the only noises were snores and coughs and the mournful whistle-wailings of Santa Fe trains rumbling through the darkened town, he honed the wire against the cell’s concrete floor. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a dark complexion and a small, wise, saturnine face with mournful pouches under both eyes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z And he mouths Adios, Virginia, and waves a mournful wave. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind began to wail, filling the hut with a mournful sound. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Yet I feel mournful, my legs weighted, slowing me down. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z It occurs to me that maybe the Doctorita makes them feel bad about their lives as homemakers, mournful they don’t have their own careers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Every night they heard the mournful howling of the pack, and every night the wolves seemed a little closer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Now the captain plays a mournful, chilling dirge on his organ as the Nautilus sleeps in the wastelands of the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He was linear, solemn, and had a pensive air and the sadness of a Saracen and a mournful glow on his face that was the color of autumn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z His face is long and mournful, like a sheep’s, but with the large full eyes of a dog, spaniel not terrier. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The doves came to drink in the still pools of the river and their cry was mournful in the darkness of my dream. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For a few minutes the two girls contemplated the possibility in mournful silence. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The folds of her cheeks were drawn in a mournful pucker. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z In accordance with his arrangements there was no music, no fireworks, no pealing bells, no shouts of victory, or any other manifestation that might alter the mournful character of the armistice. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Grinding engine noises from passing trucks only partly drowned out the mournful bellowing of some doomed cattle just a few yards down the road. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In them, he saw the mournful faces of the companions, the calm face of Adaon. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z It was probably just a folk tune being played, but after Ruthanne’s story, it sounded like a mournful wail. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z But it almost sounds human, and mournful, like it thinks I’m making a big mistake. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I pretended not to see Annabeth wipe a tear from her cheek as she listened to the mournful keening of Cerberus in the distance, longing for his new friend. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z A mournful hush fell over the barn, broken only by the long, low moans of a saddle pony who missed his absent stable companion. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, lots of fun,” I reply, to be polite, even though I am frightened by the siren’s mournful wail. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The dim Chapel of Calvary held a mournful mural of Jesus lying arms outspread and dead on the cross after it was taken down and laid on the ground. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z As I raked bits of hay from my hair with my fingers and bit into a loaf of inedible bread, the Gypsies and their children watched us with mournful faces. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The sea gushed forward and backward; it was a mournful sound. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Isa played a mournful tune on her violin, and the brownstone was devoid of the bustle and laughter typical of the Vanderbeeker household. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It looked mournful, he thought, and he wondered why the dead tree was left in this place where everything else was well tended. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Proud of bearing so beautiful a gift the aged creature carried it to Procne, who was still wearing deep mourning for her sister and whose spirit was as mournful as her garments. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z For nearly half a minute, the only sound is the mournful cry of ship horns fading away. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I listened to the mournful calls of the doves in the stone crevices of the castle walls and envied the lowly birds who nestled freely and without fear. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z We would exchange remedies and try to outdo each other in the recital of our physical miseries; gently we would complain, our voices soft and minor key and mournful as pigeons in the eaves troughs. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a mournful piece, but it made her into something clean and new. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A few seagulls wheeled lazily over the rooftops, uttering the usual mournful cries. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z But now, her memories came tumbling toward her—a kindly old man, a decrepit castle, a clutch of scholars with their faces buried in books, a mournful mother dragon saying good-bye. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I can almost hear the documentary’s mournful violin background music start up. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Her face had gone mournful and still, like stone. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He stayed until the steeple caved in and the giant fork at its apex plunged into the flames, resounding with a mournful clang as it hit the ground. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Glad to part again, Estella? To me, parting is a painful thing. To me, the remembrance of our last parting has been ever mournful and painful.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z She ended the performance with a mournful shriek more than a little off pitch and looked around, grinning for her family’s approval. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “How well you read me, you witch!” interposed Mr. Rochester: “but what did you find in the veil besides its embroidery? Did you find poison, or a dagger, that you look so mournful now?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z My mother screamed just once, one long, mournful wail, and then it was quiet. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The email was long, a thousand words of accusation and bile, but by the end his tone was mournful. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z According to Isabelle, the music of Chopin was too mournful, and the janitor needed to stop playing it because the world was mournful enough on its own. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z As a compromise I drew a kind of grimace, straight across, neither mournful nor friendly. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Bearing an expression profoundly sad and mournful, she began to look about, slowly turning her head from side to side. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The sound of a woman’s voice, kind of mournful, almost like a wounded animal, filled the air. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hubble shook her head, and contemplating me with a mournful presentiment that I should come to no good, asked, “Why is it that the young are never grateful?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The slow, endless clanging filled their room, as mournful as a dirge. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Similarly mournful love songs were cropping up all over Europe during this period, their woeful lyrics gaining popularity in courts, noble houses, and other places where a sheet of printed music could be afforded. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A low, sad mournful cry tore itself from his throat and mixed into the lapping sound of the waters of the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Entering the house slowly, he put on a sad, mournful expression. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Professor McGonagall had risen to her feet, and the mournful hum in the Hall died away at once. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He pushed it with the tips of his fingers and the hinges yielded with a mournful and articulate moan that left a frozen echo inside of him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The mournful wind moved like a shadow down the street, swirling in its path chalky dust and tumbleweeds. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Salvador raised round, mournful eyes to meet his sister’s. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z So I lay in bed and listened to her mournful noise and didn’t feel love or hate or anger or anything at all except despair. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The voices ranged from low and mournful to high and exultant; they blended together in rising and falling harmonies that filled the night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z A queenless colony is a pitiful and melancholy community; there may be a mournful wail or lament from within. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z All he could do was again to sit wretched and helpless on the shore, but this time not trying in fury to kill people, only singing mournful love songs to soften the sea nymph’s heart. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the most mournful howl I ever heard. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Though he spoke with a dignified and mournful clarity, he had but one contribution to make that was relevant to a claim of temporary insanity. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, the greatest fun,” he answered, but in a voice so mournful, with an expression so profoundly miserable, that Lenina felt all her triumph suddenly evaporate. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “With my elephants,” Harry Strickland said, in a mournful tone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The music and the dancing became mournful as a succession of funereal dances conveyed the murderous Reign of Terror. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z BaiMa’s steps made a hollow, mournful echo, and when the swallow stopped in front of a red carved door, they heard the unmistakable sound of weeping. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z They were each feeling jittery and mournful, and neither of them could figure out why that was so, since they’d been waiting for this night for a long, long time. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z There was singing somewhere; far away, above him; singing slow and mournful. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The Ritz grew solemn and still as he recited the mournful shipwreck saga and the wind outside shrieked in the frozen rigging. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Then the big mournful drunk shrugged yet again and scuffed over to the woodpile; seating himself on a pinon stump, he wiped his brow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her wide, mournful eyes had settled on me, and I could tell they weren’t going anywhere until I explained that a little better. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He pulled off his hood to reveal neatly cut gray hair, a mournful face red-cheeked from the chilly day, and dark eyes that seemed themselves almost to be weapons. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z But instead of finding sad and mournful people pondering all the ways that others annihilate themselves, Petey found the Rude boys lurking around the front of the cafe. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She shifted back and forth, back and forth, lowing in a most mournful manner. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He was a tiny creature, smaller than Winston, with dark hair and large, protuberant eyes, at once mournful and derisive, which seemed to search your face closely while he was speaking to you. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Bree turned round at last, his face mournful as only a horse's can be. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z It broke like a mournful lullaby upon the night The tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontellier’s eyes that the damp sleeve of her peignoir no longer served to dry them. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z At that Tansy called out, low and mournful and full of pain and fright. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Here the poor roach began fizzing so much, what with its stammer and its tearful disposition, that it became quite inarticulate and could only stare at Merlyn with mournful eyes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, when Mr. Costa came in to sweep, he listened to the radio sing a mournful song about a lonely truck driver in jail who longed for his eighteen-wheel rig and the open highway. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t seem at all like a man who would play mournful music on the piano. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Then, in the distance, a dove uttered a mournful note that resounded like the call of my own heart. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z ‘How wide and empty and mournful all this country looks!’ said Frodo. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I wanted to see my father alone, without the small congregation as witnesses, so I asked for another bowl of stew and drank it slowly while they walked to him singing a mournful hymn. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Yeah. His last album is sooo mournful. It lets me release my grief in small, beautiful doses.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She looked as if some mournful tune had found its way into her head and she could not lose it. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z From somewhere in the distance came a mournful sound of brass instruments, a death dirge echoing over the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z So much fun he’d made of the dog; still, now he turned mournful. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They crow so mournful, so hopeful, they wake the dogs. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a mournful look on his face. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She bullied and exploited them, but to the mournful, unwanted vlei people she represented home. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In the morning the brass band played a mournful dirge. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked so mournful that I regretted having brought it up. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Elisha did not arrest his playing of a mournful song: “Oh, Lord, have mercy on me.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The long, mournful moan of a bone ship floated across the waves. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “No doubt about it,” Mr. Huffer agreed sadly, and I imagined he struck his classic one-hand-on-hip mournful pose while his other hand reached out to pat someone on the shoulder. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Elisha sat again at the piano and picked up his mournful song. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Day and night, the wind whistling through the rigging and the mournful cries of gulls gave voice to my loneliness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z One palm was curled in the other, and he occasionally gave it a mournful lick. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Cold air blew in, whistling a mournful tune like the dead singing. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Down at the bottom, sitting on a block of stone in the middle of the stage, the god Apollo hunched over a ukulele, plucking out a mournful tune. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The afternoon breeze whistled through the partly open door with a mournful, far-off sound. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m hag-ridden,” he says, pretending to be mournful. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z My chewing slowed down, down to the pace of the mournful country song from the speakers. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The mournful lawyers showed in court that that man had nothing to do with the company and in order that no one doubt their arguments they had him jailed as an impostor. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Homer lit a lantern and they entered the mournful old house. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Then they rode on, glad to have left the mournful Fords. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It was not singing at all, Matty realized, but the rhythmic and mournful sound they called keening, the sound of loss. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z It’s a strange, almost mournful version of “Time After Time.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z His sparse hair was long and stringy; his nose drooped wearily above his upper lip, which in turn drooped toward his chin in a most mournful expression. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The summit of a hill stood out above the water, crowned with a clump of trees, mostly oaks, whose bare branches looked mournful against the gray sky. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It was mournful, indeed, to witness the subjugation of that vigorous spirit to a corporeal infirmity. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Father sang the song in such a mournful voice that he always made me laugh. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound repeated, low and just as mournful. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z The coughing was the saddest sound that Edward had ever heard, sadder even than the mournful call of the whippoorwill. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z I heard a mournful whistle off in the distance. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The tune he played was mournful and slow, but it must have reached the ears of the shoemaker. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The man tried to smile, but there was a mournful twist to his mouth, the glistening of his clear-water eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “After such a merry, sinful summer,” he mused, “by the just judgement of God, a most mournful autumn followed.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He pressed his lips to the pearl handles of his prized revolvers, bestowing each with a mournful kiss. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Writing a letter of complaint about mournful music didn’t seem like a good deed at all. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z She was smiling her mournful smile as she slipped me a crust of bread. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She nodded in the direction of her two large mournful daughters. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z The low, mournful hooting of sauropods sounded across the city as Magdalys rounded the corner. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The Golden Glen, in particular, was too mournful to be borne, according to Isabelle. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z No sooner had the mournful song run its course than the minister took to the altar and delivered a sermon that in my state gave little comfort. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z No ghosts yet, just ash trees and maples lined up in a mournful row. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “No Man” bemoans an emotionally distant partner in a moody, time-warped ballad, layering electronic percussion and mournful strings. On Her Debut Album, Olivia Dean Is Already Pushing Ahead 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Both situations call for thorough self-questioning and the mournful recognition that joy is fleeting, along with flashes of anger, estrangement, guilt and melancholy. Cage the Elephant Returns, Suspended Between Rowdiness and Regret 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Underpinning everything were the striking lighting designs, by Shechter and Jim French, and Shechter’s spare musical score, which mixed atmospheric sounds—distant explosions, hammering, churning machinery—with passages of mournful strings. You'd Follow Them Anywhere 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z It’s beautiful, mournful music, but it doesn’t make up for this work’s lack of ambition. Dance Review: Faustin Linyekula and Dean Moss at MoMA 2012-10-27T07:20:07Z There’s a feeling of mournful nostalgia in sharp contrast to the spirit of forward-looking faith in one of history’s most comprehensive collective endeavors — i.e., Review: ‘Scenes for a New Heritage’ at the Museum of Modern Art 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z When a sad event occurs, you can practically score the mournful sound of the cello that follows. Review: ‘Long Story Short,’ Till Death Do Us Part 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z But the site specificity goes deeper: “Monochromatic Light” closely echoes the instrumentation and the mournful, glacial style of Morton Feldman’s “Rothko Chapel,” written for the space soon after it opened in the early 1970s. A Work of Mourning Comes to New York, With No Rothkos in Sight 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Wincing scenes are leavened with moments of grace and mournful nostalgia. A Lakeside Family Vacation Goes Awry in This Debut Novel 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Her lyrics are often mournful; they ponder loss, fear, separation, heartbreak, war and death. Music Review: Laura Marling Brings Folk Traditions to City Winery 2010-05-16T22:35:00Z During some particularly beautiful moments, a wave of undulating ambient sounds was interspersed with mournful brass interludes. Make Music New York: ‘Maritime Rites’ at Make Music New York 2012-06-23T00:23:02Z Individual components are rich: photographic images suggest extraterrestrial forms; the texts are samples of Weston’s intensely mournful poetry, the benches and glass evoke modernist architecture. For Black Artists, the Motivating Power of Melancholia 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Michael Kiwanuka’s second album, “Love & Hate,” is a sustained, stylized plunge into despair: plaints of isolation, doubt, lovelessness, racial injustice, longing, hopelessness and a certain resolve despite it all, often set to mournful minor chords. Michael Kiwanuka’s ‘Love & Hate’ Plunges Into Despair, With a Retro Feel 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z "My Baby Don't Understand Me" mixes a mournful ode to disinterest that erupts at key moments with brass and string accents. Essential albums of 2015: Bjork, Kendrick and 8 others on the edge of pop 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z The juxtaposition between the singer's mournful baritone and the joyous guitar lines and vocal harmonies is a defining characteristic of their sound. The National: gloomy ? with a hint of sunshine 2010-04-22T20:30:00Z With pitch-black eyes and alabaster makeup, clutching a headless doll, she looks spookily doll-like herself, and speaks with a mournful lilt. Review: ‘Ride the Cyclone,’ About Teenagers, and Angst, in Purgatory 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z When Benjamin is informed of his late-stage cancer diagnosis, he fends off the doom and gloom by defensive sarcasm and plunging into work, instructing his pupils to re-enact scenes of difficult goodbyes and mournful departures. ‘Peaceful’ Review: A Homage to French Filmmaking 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The song, “Where Are We Now?” is a mournful, tender ballad that name-checks many of the places in Berlin where Bowie hung out in the 1970s, when he was arguably at his most creative. David Bowie: Back to His Mysterious Best 2013-03-07T12:00:25Z “It was really one of the most simultaneously tedious and mournful things I’ve ever done,” he said. David Rakoff’s Last Deadline 2013-07-03T16:16:53Z If honesty about her lack of mournful feelings is not going to fly with Adam, then Hannah’s going to fake it. ArtsBeat: ‘Girls’ Recap: A Death and Hannah 2014-01-27T05:02:53Z That it leaves us on a note or two of mournful ambiguity shouldn’t count as points off. Review | In a somber, satisfying ‘Americans’ finale, Philip and Elizabeth make a painful choice 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z A cozy wine bar and restaurant, in the Bairro Alto neighborhood, and a regular haunt of fado singers, performers of ballads in a mournful, romantic style that can be traced back at least 200 years. 6 European Countries, 9 Days, 0 Planes 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z It’s a mournful, terrifying book — classic horror meets eco-thriller, a story about the ferocity of maternal love and its inadequacies in the face of a world we have destroyed. In Stories From an Argentine Surrealist, Circles of Madness and Violence 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Same with “American Sniper,” coming as it has a few crucial years after such mournful, left-leaning box office failures tied to the Iraq invasion as “In the Valley of Elah” and “Lions for Lambs.” Is 'American Sniper' a litmus test for patriotism? 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The slower second movement begins with a mournful dialogue for viola and second violin, punctuated by restless bursts and ominous sustained tones from the other instruments. Review: At Summergarden, a Steamy Evening of Exploratory Sounds 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Even in its mournful moments, the songs stay upbeat and the sorrow is quick to pass. Review: A Runaway Slave Rides West in ‘Cross That River’ 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z The book's title is taken from A Dirge, the mournful poem by Christina Rossetti which is a lament for one who died too young. JK Rowling sheds light on alter ego 2013-07-24T09:52:53Z For Ricciotti, aged 60, is a showman, presenting beneath a mop of greying hair the mournful world-weariness of a disillusioned romantic. Museum of the Civilisations of Europe and the Mediterranean (MuCEM) – review 2013-06-08T23:05:15Z In a slightly more poetic touch, no opportunity is missed to show the freight trains that run past the Thompsons’ yard, their mournful whistles permanently blowing. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Price of Gold’ Revisits the Harding-Kerrigan Story 2014-01-15T22:56:24Z This novel’s tone in general, however, is mournful and resonant. Mourning With the Help of a Great Dane 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The Maniac score ranges from woozy drones to mournful, emotive themes. Maniac is still nasty but it's a cut above most horror remakes 2013-03-15T13:00:00Z “Oh no,” he said in a tone somewhere between mournful and defiant. Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Unearthing some mournful poetry Rose wrote about her time in the cigar factory, Hochschild corroborates her grim portrait with notes made by a factory inspector. The Unlikely Life of a Socialist Activist Resonates a Century Later 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z But he does share with his protagonist a mournful, raw intensity, and is frank about his own struggles with drugs and alcohol. Possessed: Crosses That Bear the Past 2011-06-10T17:30:02Z Accompanied by dim lighting and a soundtrack that is by turns mournful and menacing, the setting in a small performing space creates a charged atmosphere. Play predicts chilling future for Britain's prized health service 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Sadly the best piece on the program, Shostakovich’s mournful Piano Trio No. 2, fared the worst. Do Russian musicians play Russian music better? 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z We listen to Belushi’s mournful rendition of the song “Guilty,” singing “it takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend to be somebody else.” ‘Belushi’ Finds the Sensitive Man Inside the Wild Persona 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Like last year’s opening sequence, it’s a lovely, mournful short film, scored this time to the country standard “Funny How Time Slips Away.” Review: ‘Better Call Saul,’ Quirky and Absorbing in Season Opener 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Alternately dancing and pining, drunk and mournful, Mr. Lomelí captured the ’s potent combination of hilarity and pathos. Music Review: Two Debuts at a Diner That Specializes in Donizetti?s Secret Sauce 2011-03-23T21:29:23Z “You never noticed,” she sings on the track over the vigorous guitar strumming that breaks in between mournful riffs. Let’s Eat Grandma’s Electro Pop Is Glittery. Its Subjects Are Weighty. 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z The final, mournful piece of narration expresses sadness over the loss but also a stinging sense of regret. The Virgin Suicides at 20: Sofia Coppola's debut continues to haunt 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Yet the series isn’t really about the war in the Middle East, even though that struggle provides a scary, mournful backdrop. ‘The Honorable Woman,’ Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z This proud and forbidding figure, under the amused gaze of Hirschfeld, displays sagging eyes, a tiny button mouth and the mournful gaze of a hungry turtle. ‘The Hirschfeld Century’ review: the best work of the iconic caricaturist 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z 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 Duris' character shifts throughout the film, from charming and upbeat to mournful and questioning, and he is largely tasked with carrying the audience through the emotional turns as the story takes on darker shades. French actor Romain Duris is a man of many moods 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Lear’s growing awareness of his blindness to his own faults, and his mournful discovery of the universal nature of human suffering, are rendered with affecting clarity and simplicity. ‘King John’ and ‘King Lear’ at the Stratford Festival 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z A less elevated perspective is enfolded in "sea-washed, sunset gates", a rather mournful image combining the sense of expansive, gently-gilded western horizons with the exile's homesick melancholy. Poem of the Week: The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 2012-06-04T10:42:44Z They performed some of the originals that fired their early work, including the haunted “Tulsa Queen” and the bereft “’Til I Gain Control Again,” shaded by a pedal-steel as mournful as a train whistle. Concert review: Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Richard Thompson at Symphony Center 2013-03-21T06:25:00Z The tone that Obama strikes in lines like these is almost mournful. In ‘A Promised Land,’ Barack Obama Thinks — and Thinks Some More — Over His First Term 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z Nor did his low-key, quiet singing that, akin to the formal strings, appeared tailored for a mournful mass. Peter Gabriel's experiment with strings attached 2011-06-21T14:26:00Z Each director has to decide how to interpret the mysterious sound Chekhov describes in Act Two: "It is the mournful sound of a huge breaking string… it is overwhelmingly sad." Breathing new life into Cherry Orchard 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z For all the built-up dread in “The Island Funeral,” the movie ends on a note that’s both lyrical and terribly mournful. Review: ‘The Island Funeral’ Goes on a Restless Road Trip 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z It is shot unapologetically in black and white, giving Mr. Payne’s rural landscapes a mournful, timeless look. Times Writers Share Last Chance Theater Picks 2013-12-26T21:06:11Z In “#2,” which concluded the set, he used a bow against the cymbals to elicit eerie sonorities after mournful passages by Ms. Makarski took on a more agitated hue. Review: Lukas Ligeti’s Disparate Interests, on Display at the Stone 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The insistence of the electronic sounds, coupled with the bodily failures at the core of the live element, creates a tension that’s strangely mournful. Nate Wooley’s ‘For Kenneth Gaburo’ Manipulates a Sentence 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z She was in turn glamorous and clumsy, funny and mournful. ‘Introducing, Selma Blair’ Review: An Actress in Her Second Act 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z “It’s the most mournful of songs but it’s also political, it’s about living in dark times. And I thought: ‘Well, you know, Thom is my Billie Holiday.’” Edward Norton and Thom Yorke: 'The last thing we wanted was for it to get bloody' 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Following an intriguingly mournful Capriccio, the work ends with an energetic and formidable Fugue in E flat, excitingly played here. Music Review: Utrecht String Quartet at the Frick Collection 2013-01-22T23:00:32Z He also played three songs from "Nebraska", the mournful acoustic album which confounded fans when it was released in 1982. Springsteen revisits Glory Days in London 2013-07-01T06:16:51Z The novel’s tone, however, is frequently mournful and resonant. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z But everything comes together beautifully on this mournful cut, which is drenched in blues and oozes feeling. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Aggressive, chaotic, suffused with patriotic swagger and a mournful sense of loss, “13 Hours” clearly seeks to capture the box-office success of such forebears as “Lone Survivor” and “American Sniper.” ‘13 Hours,’ Benghazi and the slippery definition of ‘political’ 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z His approach could be mournful, sweet or fleet, and he sometimes played so hard that the small metal-and-wood instrument fell apart in his hands. James Cotton, hard-blowing harmonica master of the blues, dies at 81 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z A trumpet player, bathed in red light, began a mournful melody from stage left. Eagles give KeyArena peaceful, easy feeling 2010-05-27T19:25:00Z And it’s radically angry about grievous and hypocritical, callous and cruel and racist departures from American promise, as well as radically mournful of the lives lost to gun violence and to gang violence. Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The mournful No Me, No You, No More, on the other hand, saw the band discarding the simple, guitar-and-vocal arrangements of their first record. The Staves: 'Bon Iver gave us cabin fever' 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z His personal life, meanwhile, remains an exquisite abstraction — close-ups of his mournful wife, scenes of domestic bliss and of horror — with none of the visceral realism of his fights. Movie Review: ‘The Grandmaster,’ Wong Kar-wai’s New Film 2013-08-22T21:24:54Z And what is the influence of “Pierrot” on Strauss’s mournful, smoothly flowing “Metamorphosen”? Music Review: Strange Bedfellows For a Schoenberg Series 2010-08-30T22:06:00Z The video espouses propaganda from the church of consumerism, over blipping, mournful electronic music. Lunar Cuts: Mario Sweet and Malice, Imneye, JusMoni 2010-12-22T20:49:05Z “Dirty Projectors” is, amid its nine songs, heartsick, mournful, bitter, nostalgic, enraged, self-critical, vindictive, skeptical, reflective and tentatively hopeful; its closing song, “I See You,” claims to find “forgiveness, reconciliation, gratitude.” Dirty Projectors Confronts a Breakup, Emerging With a New Sound 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z That said, the keening guitars and mournful violins are ubiquitous elements – leitmotifs, if you will – in their music. New band of the day ? No 891: Tristram 2010-10-20T16:14:00Z Lyricist Ebb died in 2004, but composer Kander and librettist David Thompson saw the musical through, with music ranging from the mournful ballad “Go Back Home” to a number involving an electric chair. Navigating minstrelsy in Kander & Ebb’s ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z To be sure, a non-anti-Semitic work can be used toward anti-Semitic ends, but there is little evidence that this mournful, meditative score has fed the passions of bigots, European or otherwise. The Met's Klinghoffer Problem 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Dark, heavy, deconstructed rock music that draws from surf, punk, dub reggae and "other" — and who ordered the mournful clarinet interlude? Best Seattle pop music, 2010: arcs and top ten 2010-12-30T10:57:06Z A mood of mournful ennui prevails, as if the film itself were grieving for real lives lost to Second Life’s beguiling lotus land. Cao Fei Captures Modern Malaise in a Series of Inventive Videos 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z A slow, moody piano line was punctuated by a soft, ominous drumbeat that turned by the end of the mournful piece into a vaguely martial rat-a-tat. Review: Tectonics Festival New York Takes Wing at a Church Setting 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z But the tune most often associated with the folia is wise, mournful and stately. Music Review: At Zankel Hall, Venice Baroque Orchestra in High Spirits 2010-05-05T23:50:00Z Mr. Yorke introduces a mournful melody over a smoother keyboard line and drumming that’s apparently sampled, though the track is far more varied than most brief, repetitive drum loops. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases a Surprise Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z “The Thrill of It All,” like its predecessor, is a mournful retro soul album that relies on Smith’s otherworldly voice to carry the load. Review | Sam Smith: Sadness with a whole lot of emptiness 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Above all this barely contained grief and rage rises a mournful melody of old-time country music. Book review: ‘Black River,’ by S.M. Hulse 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z “Norwegian Wood” registers less as a coherent narrative than as a tortuous reverie steeped in mournful yearning. | 'Norwegian Wood': ?Norwegian Wood,? From Haruki Murakami Novel - Review 2012-01-05T22:21:44Z Because it telegraphs emotion — both mournful and hopeful — and involves some vocal acrobatics, it has become shorthand for Big Emotional Moment and employed by performers looking to stamp themselves with authenticity. How Pop Culture Wore Out Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z A nearly eight-and-a-half minute allegory that goes from mournful to infectious to mournful again, the monster 1971 radio hit is seemingly known to all generations and still sung at bar-closing times the world over. ‘The Day the Music Died’ Review: ‘American Pie,’ the Life of a Hit 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Mercy, also a dancer, a fraction too mournful, rushes to the front of the stage with his arms held out to either side, like a tragic bird. Dance Review: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Performs at BAM 2012-10-20T02:40:07Z Krause's acoustic diagrams of rainforest habitats before and after logging are powerful images of desolation: a formerly dense web of timbres now striated with mournful gaps of silence. Non-fiction reviews roundup 2012-07-06T06:59:01Z Their mournful, evocative songs — about longing, loss and unresolved feelings — are interspersed throughout the men’s recollections, punching up the emotional tenor. Review: In ‘Where the Mountain Meets the Sea,’ Missed Connections 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Antlers/Electric Eye goes thud thud thud but it's got a lovely mournful melody. New band of the day ? No 791: Apparatjik 2010-05-20T15:41:00Z It is a frothing, angry, mournful meditation on what is slipping away as America plows on into the 21st century. Eggers’ ‘Fathers’ an angry take on changing world 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Particularly effective are Isaac’s renditions, like “Hang Me, Oh Hang Me”, on which the 33-year-old adopts a mournful tone. Inside Llewyn Davis Soundtrack: Folk and Mirrors 2013-11-22T13:00:38Z Flecked with comedy and soothed with song, it’s a beautiful, ultimately mournful play about where the United States went wrong — on race, on gender — way back at the start. Women’s Voices Festival a Potent Reminder of Who Goes Unheard Onstage 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Rudetsky has a character actor’s looks, not a leading man’s; his face is long, rubbery and a little mournful. Seth Rudetsky, Broadway’s Go-To Guy, Flirts With ‘Disaster!’ 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z In her lyrical and mournful 1997 play, “Pride’s Crossing,” Singing Beach makes a cameo as the locale for a proposed moonlit swim. Review: Tina Howe’s New Englanders Thrash in the Shallows of ‘Singing Beach’ 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z On “The Tunnel,” Sigurd Hole’s bass is way up in the mix, sometimes pooling like spilled glue, elsewhere making melodies with long, mournful shapes. The Playlist: Eminem’s Surprise ‘Venom,’ and 10 More New Songs 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z That balance between the truly mournful and the absurd. ArtsBeat: Todd Haynes to Make Film of My Morning Jacket Show 2011-05-03T14:40:57Z Nor have I heard a sound so mournful as the one produced in the show’s saddest moment by the accordion: a wheeze of despair. Review: Off Broadway, Jim Parsons Meets the Small Bang Theory 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z The frenzy dissolves into a quiet Adagio, with a mournful cello melody echoed by the horn, representing Pentheus facing death. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, Led by Christoph von Dohnanyi 2012-03-23T22:47:08Z The film, which proved triumphant at last night’s Critics Circle awards, is a mournful romance about the relationship between jazz pianist Ryan Gosling and aspirant actor Emma Stone. Golden Globes 2017: La La Land leads pack with seven nominations 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Yet “Howard,” borne along by wonderful songs and Ashman’s playful delight in his work, is the opposite of mournful. ‘Howard’ Review: A Lyricist’s Life Cut Short 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z The images of soldiers at ease, at work, or in combat—and, for that matter, appalling and mournful ones of those fallen in action—aren’t so much unaffecting as, despite Jackson’s best intentions, general. “They Shall Not Grow Old,” Reviewed: The Indelible Voices in Peter Jackson’s First World War Documentary 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z “The train was moving mournful slow,” Michael Scott told the Baltimore Sun. Review | ‘The train was moving mournful slow’: Exhibit shows haunting photos of Bobby Kennedy’s final journey 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z It finds Mvula throwing up her hands at an unsatisfactory relationship, at once fierce and mournful. Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon – review 2013-03-03T00:05:13Z The music takes effect, its beauty imbuing the mournful text with irrepressible hope as the voices fade to a rapt conclusion. Honoring Verdi on Seventy-second Street 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z When we peer at the mournful figure in those familiar daguerreotypes, we seem to glimpse the emblematic image of the modern artist as misunderstood genius, prey to melancholy, drawn to self-destruction. Review | Is Poe the most influential American writer? A new book offers evidence. 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z A mournful lullaby, “Goodnight Old World,” looks to a newborn child to “soften the sorrow” of “this sad world”; Ms. Harris now has a young granddaughter. A LifeDigging For Veins Of Gold 2011-04-24T00:49:06Z When Lizzy play the mournful Still in Love With You with pictures of Lynott flashed up behind them there isn't a dry eye in the house. The show must go on: when bands replace their dead stars 2011-01-27T22:59:01Z No longer is Mr. Hamill the burly tough guy with the mournful eyes who had the rugged good looks of a television homicide detective. Pete Hamill ‘Ain’t Done Yet’ 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Sometimes Lean would let the camera roll and whisper a mournful story to produce the tears or anxious looks that he required. John Howard Davies obituary 2011-08-24T17:45:22Z A song that was once sung by gargoyles and a bat now becomes a mournful farewell to the bridges, rivers and forests of one’s homeland. I Saw Myself in ‘Anastasia.’ And I Knew I Had to Leave Honduras. 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Except for a mournful mention of the death of George H. W. Bush, stories from Washington were glossed over in favor of topics like work-life balance, exercise, raising feminist boys and girls. Michelle Obama’s New Reign of Soft Power 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z A jazz band waited in the pulpit, but for now the air rang with the mournful notes of “Sposa son disprezzata” from a lone soprano in the loft. In Quebec, a Winter Celebration on Skis 2013-01-25T18:23:12Z The heavily edited videoclip contains a sequence of brief scenes backed by mournful music. Group claims elephant in Witherspoon film was abused 2011-05-11T00:39:27Z Mengestu, who left his native Ethiopia as a child and now teaches at Georgetown, tells the mournful, mysterious story of an African man who comes to the Midwest on a student visa. The top 50 fiction books for 2014 “Listen to that mournful cello!” he would exclaim during the song’s florid introduction. The Music of Don Shirley Is More Resilient Than Any “Green Book” Cliché 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Floating on the edge of dissonance, the mournful tones stopped me in my tracks, and I looked around for its source. Cádiz, an Underrated Corner of Spain 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z He was sad; his own band was dead, and he sang it in a particular, mournful way, and it was as if Blaze Foley himself were in that room. Ethan Hawke Is Still Taking Ethan Hawke Extremely Seriously 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z In a callback to McKinnon’s performance four years ago, Baldwin stood up, walked to a piano and began to sing a mournful cover of the Village People’s “Macho Man.” ‘Saturday Night Live’ Sends Off Trump With a Ballad 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z “There Were Bells” contemplates the slow-motion cataclysm of global warming as an elegy and a warning, with edgeless, tolling sounds and a mournful melody as Brian Eno sings about the destruction no one will escape. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z I once saved a palm-sized baby cat with big mournful eyes and a broken leg in Havana. Cats can make you laugh, cry, lose sleep – and then break your heart 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z But late in the play, Ms. Rivera does kick up her heels in a joyous and mournful pas de deux with her younger self, played by Michelle Veintimilla. The Indomitable Chita Rivera, Back on Broadway in ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z By the time they closed with Runnin' – whose lilting verses slipped into a lovely, oddly mournful singalong chorus – the night felt like a proper house party. The Pharcyde – review 2012-07-19T17:15:01Z It's particularly audible in the first four lines, where the mournful, vowel-heavy sounds of the cattle lowing and the bell's tolling are grounded by the earthier throb of tired, heavy, mud-caked footfall. Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2011-01-17T10:17:14Z The only soundtrack is a mournful guitar theme by Paul Simon. Louis C.K.’s ‘Horace and Pete’: Mournful and Unshakable 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Cajun music, a mournful back porch music of waltzes and fiddles, is still largely the province of white musicians. Louisiana?s Zydeco Trail 2011-04-22T18:55:00Z It was mournful but not quite mourning, shocking but familiar. Perspective | James Levine was a powerful maestro, but an even more powerful myth 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z On Monday night, state television broadcast the names of all 796 of the lost children, which scrolled down the screen to the sound of mournful music. Relatives seek truth about Irish babies 'discarded like litter' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z She opened her set with a sardonically mournful song by LCD Soundsystem: “New York I Love You, but You’re Bringing Me Down.” Music Review: Elizabeth and the Catapult at the Mercury Lounge - Review 2012-01-05T23:06:41Z The mostly mournful tunes convey operatic levels of emotion but with a much subtler delivery, often accompanied only by guitar. Hair-raising performance at Iberian Suite festival 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z As the lights dimmed, the show began with mournful performers in various states of makeup and dress, screeching, screaming and clawing at their faces. London Men’s Wear Shows Reflect on Race and Masculinity 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Photograph: Isopix/Rex Features In late 1963, in the wake of the Kennedy assassination, American radio stations sought out some softer music to suit the nation's mournful mood. Belgian music now: from Antwerp to Waterloo 2012-07-03T11:45:19Z And Stewart, whose somewhat functionary character carries the serio-comic point, locates an internal mournful pulse that touchingly lands by the fade-out. Looking for love at Unicorns 'n Things? The screwball rom-com 'Past Time' 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Revis, bowing his bass with fidgety elegance, struck a tone of mournful calm, his solo functioning as both a stand-alone dramatic statement and a fulcrum for the actions of the others. Review: Eric Revis Trio Lets the Music Lead the Way at the Jazz Gallery 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Merging rock’s cathartic urgency with country’s mournful melodies isn’t an innovation, yet the polished quartet makes that combination sound unprecedented with stripped-down, precise arrangements in lieu of arena-size brawn. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z PiL – No Birds Couldn't quite establish securely in my own mind that this was, as claimed, a riposte to And Your Bird Can Sing, but it is a piece of both frenzied and mournful rock'n'roll. Readers recommend: fantasy songs 2010-10-07T23:01:00Z He presented the mournful "Shipbuilding" with a swirling, percussive vibe adapted, said Costello, from Chet Baker's improvised arrangement of the song. Elvis Costello, Ben Folds harness the L.A. Phil at the Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Most versions of the song are mournful, if not bereft. Shelter from the Storm: A Review of Bob Dylan’s Whiskey 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z I will not soon forget the aching way he sang these mournful lines. Review: ‘Don Pasquale’ Returns to the Met, With a Bravura Aria and More 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z 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 This song—“Everything’s gone wrong / How we long for ‘Yes we can’ ”—was beautiful and genuinely mournful. A Jazz Funeral for the American Presidency 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The third movement darted and bit even more bitterly, the viciously maintained counterpoint interrupted by a crystalline, mournful trumpet solo around the midpoint. BSO bids a reluctant farewell with Mahler’s Ninth Symphony at Strathmore 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z It was so mournful, so tender, yet so in control. Elvis Costello at the Beacon: Misery and Splendor 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z From his first moments onstage, Mr. Ouimette exudes a sense of wry foreboding, his mournful eyes already seeming to see the darkness ahead. ‘King John’ and ‘King Lear’ at the Stratford Festival 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z For the most part, it's just his delicate vocal over a mournful piano. Queens Of The Stone Age: Josh Homme comes back from the brink 2013-06-01T05:00:01Z But vulnerability has always been there, too — since his debut album 20 years ago, he’s rapped with mournful clarity about consequences and regrets, a flawed actor in a flawed world. The Playlist: Jay Z Responds to Police Shootings With ‘Spiritual’ 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z In the wake of Jon Stewart’s final night at his Daily Show desk, the Twittersphere was saturated with mournful goodbyes and sincere appreciations for his 16 years at the helm of the show. Here's How Twitter Said Goodbye to Jon Stewart 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Hadad is a gifted singer, able to belt out those long, deep notes on mournful songs such as “Cucurrucucú” like the best balladeers. Astrid Hadad, 'Lady Gaga of Nixtamal,' is part of thrilling start to PST's performance fest 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z In this quartet he uses timbres that evoke a swarm of bees, for example, as well as pizzicato chords, eerie harmonics and a mournful conclusion. Music Review: Philharmonia Quartett Berlin at Weill Recital Hall 2012-10-14T22:09:02Z Where “De Novo” is mournful, “Race Card” is furious. When Disenfranchised Lives and American Ideals Collide Onstage 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z In the first movement Shostakovich channels mournful feelings into a Neo-Classical structure. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra, With Nézet-Séguin, at Carnegie Hall 2013-01-18T21:50:44Z This is the theme of “Horace and Pete,” the mournful and — judging from the first episode — unshakable new series that the comedian Louis C.K. dropped without warning, Beyoncé-style, on his website Saturday morning. Louis C.K.’s ‘Horace and Pete’: Mournful and Unshakable 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z But then, from offstage, the sound of a piano playing an Albéniz tango, a favorite work of the friend being memorialized, is heard, and the orchestra almost dissolves into diffused, mournful textures. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z The jagged and mournful aesthetic of that plan allowed it to operate, to a significant degree, as a memorial in its own right. Architecture review: At 9/11 Memorial Museum, a relentless literalism 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z “From now on, it will be necessary to cope with total arbitrariness and incompetence across the Atlantic,” Rousso wrote, in a mournful ending to his French account. The Deep Irony of a Scholar of Vichy France Being Detained in Houston 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z It’s mournful, even solemn, but not righteous or resigned. ‘Vicuña’ is a comedy tailored to troubled political times 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Like all Frisell's inimitable impressions of America, it's joyous, mournful, bluesy, minimal, intricate, direct as a pop song and impressionistically mysterious by turns. Bill Frisell: Big Sur – review 2013-07-11T21:59:00Z The failures are due to a basic mismatch between song and vehicle: When Doves Cry is far too funky and syncopated for such a mournful, beatless setting. Scala and Kolacny Brothers: December – review 2012-12-13T17:09:23Z One of the most memorable songs in “Fun Home” — winner of the 2015 Tony Award for best musical and beginning a month-long run at the National Theatre on Tuesday — is the opposite of mournful. It’s built around a funeral home, but there’s nothing funereal about ‘Fun Home’ 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z It's not to be funereal or mournful, though I'm certain there will be those moments. Saturday celebration to honor life of Chris Wedes, J.P. Patches star 2012-09-05T02:02:04Z A collaboration with Mr. Orbit, “Love Spent,” starts with the unexpected — minor-key banjo picking — before it marches toward mournful accusations: “If I was your treasury/ You’d have found the time to treasure me.” Critic?s Notebook: ?MDNA,? Madonna?s 12th Studio Album 2012-03-26T18:12:55Z Ms. York sang with a supple, polished voice that was by turns mournful, yearning and powerful. Nora York, Singer Who Fused Forms, Dies at 60 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The third act progressed toward a finale of controlled nobility; the opening of the fourth was an elegy of mellow, mournful winds, their music seeming to exhale into being taken up by the low strings. In Cleveland, Schubert Outsings Even the Mighty ‘Otello’ 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z As with so much of Carlson's work, these five songs suggest a mournful last dance in the decrepit roadhouse of some faded midwest mining town. Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II ? review 2012-02-09T22:59:00Z And, now more than ever, together with the minaret and the mournful call to prayer, the idea of a call to arms in this nascent nation felt suddenly, profoundly absurd. The most striking aspect of Europe’s newest nation: Its normalcy 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The play turned out to be a one-woman show, accompanied by the mournful bow of a single cellist, set against a plain, blood-red backdrop. Lessons from the case against the Calabrian mafia: Organized crime is global, and flourishing 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z In the distance I hear coyotes and the mournful wail of a loon. Adventuring while female: why the relationship women have with nature matters 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z The empathy on Brian’s mournful face suggests that, if he could just find the killer of this one victim, he could somehow expiate the misery of all of them. Movie review of Texas Killing Fields 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z Her style may change—sometimes smoky, here whispering, there deeply mournful, then cheeky and girlish—but Spektor’s vocals are always uniquely identifiable. Regina Spektor’s “…Cheap Seats”: The Return of the Pop Maverick and Her Piano 2012-06-01T10:45:25Z “Last Men in Aleppo,” a documentary both urgent and mournful, opens in the ancient Syrian city of the title, in the aftermath of a barrel-bomb attack by Russian aircraft. Review: ‘Last Men in Aleppo,’ Models of Courage Under Fire 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Albums, awards and Grammy nominations piled up over the years, and critics have long lavished praise — albeit with a mournful tone of late, as those final dates approach. Tokyo String Quartet to make last Seattle visit 2013-04-12T19:35:10Z A mournful accordion tune and bluesy guitar riffs culminated in a lively finish in “Alone on the Pacific.” Music Review: Movies as a Form of Music 2010-12-19T22:31:25Z Way, accompanied only by fragile keyboard, turned the tender "Cancer" into a mournful eulogy and injected a thumping "Teenagers" with admirable bile. A new album and face for My Chemical Romance 2010-12-16T17:46:00Z Rather than creating a mournful number, Mr. Miranda said in an interview, he hoped to capture “the spirit of the island.” Lin-Manuel Miranda Gathers All-Star Latin Artists for Hurricane Relief 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z It lulls across the pages like a mournful whisper. ‘Another Brooklyn’ reminds us of a Brooklyn far from the tony borough of today 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z The second movement fluttered with restless energy, and intensely mournful moments dotted the funereal slow movement, including the stratospheric chords at the end. Review | Schumann Quartet keeps it almost all in the family in Washington debut 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z As if on cue, a mournful ship’s horn sounded. In Prospect New Orleans, a Curator Guides 73 Artists Toward Higher Ground 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Yet as convincingly mournful as McGraw sounds against the song’s austere setting, the rest of “Sundown Heaven Town” suggests he’s not ready to commit to a style that might turn off his younger listeners. Country's superstar middle men look for their spots 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Blind Faith, a flatly brilliant pop record that sets a mournful, reggae-infused vocal against a vast diva-screamed chorus perfectly captures the euphoria and melancholy of the dancefloor at the end of the night. Chase and Status: No More Idols ? review 2011-01-27T15:30:01Z The three alternating perspectives, from Crow, to Dad, to the Boys act as a frenzied and mournful circling of the slippery-to-define grief. Max Porter's debut 'Grief Is the Thing With Feathers' soars with complexity 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Not mournful, just entirely flat sighs, borne of mild boredom – Post Office queue sighs, if you will. This week's new singles 2011-08-19T23:08:37Z The tone of that song — mournful, dazed, sullen, traumatized, self-absorbed, defensive, remote, morbid — was pervasive in the pop of 2017. Pop Music in 2017: Glum and Glummer 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The devastating image of “strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees” is the mournful heart of this antiracism song. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z The reflective “Tree of Life” is carried only by a mournful chorus fit for a funeral hymn. Damon Albarn's Dr Dee: The Blur Frontman Takes a Moody Detour 2012-05-11T10:45:16Z The leader of the band is Bryan Murray, a West Virginia native who plays tenor saxophone and, during the waning moments of the album, an affectingly mournful tin whistle. New Music: Young Jeezy, Nero, and Bryan and the Haggards - Review 2011-12-19T22:55:56Z In a more mournful and harrowing way, "You Are ... " is equally dramatic. 'Noah Davis: Savage Wilds': Trash TV as elegant art 2012-08-02T20:17:14Z Even without that direct reference, you'd hear the slightly mournful undertone to the jauntiness. Chain Ghazal: Chickens by Esther Greenleaf Mürer 2013-03-18T12:33:15Z The play upon a known phrase – camera obscura – perfectly suits the author's mournful reflections on the power of photographs following the death of his mother. Ten of the best 2011-07-15T21:54:01Z My favourite is slightly less ubiquitous: his propulsively cinematic but oddly mournful clip for the Chemical Brothers’ Elektrobank, starring his then-wife Sofia Coppola as a star gymnast. Streaming: curate your own Spike Jonze mini-season 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z “Temporary” reads like a comic and mournful “Alice in Wonderland” set in the gig economy, an eerily precise portrait of ourselves in a cracked mirror. ‘Temporary’ Is a Debut Novel That Leans Into the Absurdity of How We Work Now 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Or I might start a phone call with a mournful lyric: “Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen.” Lonnae O’Neal: ‘Deep River’ for these deeply troubled times 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Minor keys color this album with a darker beauty than its predecessors, the tone set by the slow, mournful fugue at the start of Beethoven’s Opus 131. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Without that knowledge, “Aloha Oe” arrives as something of a prank: six albums of mournful, groaning, reflective, haunted, gothic country brought to a finish with three minutes of slack-key breeze. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-22T13:57:00Z Gone too are the dream sequences that bolstered the play’s mournful tenor and provided much of its exposition. Review: ‘Harry Potter’ Back Onstage, Streamlined and Still Magical 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z An evocative title gets all but hidden — it is moaned in backup vocals — in a mournful song that arrives with odd timing. The Playlist: Young Thug Turns the Summer’s Big Meme Into a Standout Track 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z What I like in the mornings is "a litre of Gold Blend and a long mournful stare into the abyss". Grace Dent's TV OD: Three In A Bed 2011-04-01T23:06:00Z Benny Blanco, whose producer credit shows up in a lot of recent pop hits, takes top billing on “Eastside,” a mournful song about millennial struggles to make a living. The Playlist: Twenty One Pilots Jolt Awake, and 12 More New Songs 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Admittedly, director Rayne, his designers and an able all-female cast have given the production a handsome look and sound, as well as an impressively mournful atmosphere. ‘The Widow Lincoln’ at Ford’s Theatre shows a first lady in mourning 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z “One day, when I came home from school, Freya was gone and Jeff was looking mournful,” Bell writes. New Graphic Novels Detail Personal Journeys and Twists of Fate 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z In the song, Mr. McKenzie sang lyrics like these with a slow, almost mournful cadence: All across the nation, such a strange vibration. Scott McKenzie, Singer Known for ‘San Francisco,’ Dies at 73 2012-08-21T04:43:04Z Their concerts would often conclude with "Songbird," McVie's plaintive, mournful contribution to "Rumours." Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, a distinctive voice whose hits spanned decades, is dead at 79 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The album closer, “Purity,” is mournful indie rock featuring Frank Ocean and a Lauryn Hill sample. At Sotheby’s, ASAP Rocky Breaks Out of the Box 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The mournful Appalachian music of his eloquent prose is usually enough. Books of The Times: ?The Cove,? a Novel by Ron Rash 2012-04-01T18:46:33Z The tableaus and graceful, mournful transitions we see, taking us from the narrator's childhood to middle age, from one century to the next, are as fine a series of images as these filmmakers have created. A grittier 'Grit': Talent upgrade matches classic novel 2010-12-21T14:49:00Z Jones was at his best with cry-in-your-beer songs made extra mournful by his masterful phrasing. Country singer George Jones dead at 81 2013-04-26T22:24:14Z “That’s still her song, and now she is over the rainbow,” he said, before letting out another mournful laugh. Rufus Wainwright’s 10-Year Journey Back to Judy Garland 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z He speaks of "… the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father", where "gloom", with its drawn-out mournful double syllable, puts the life she wants – possibly deserves – somehow beyond reach. Thomas Hardy goes to the opera 2012-08-17T21:55:07Z Ms. Ott was at her best in the more subdued pieces, like “The Old Castle,” played with mournful beauty. Music Review: Alice Sara Ott at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-06-07T22:48:13Z The setting is quiet, save for the mournful bell of a buoy in the bay, and you wonder what the inmates pondered as they toiled within view of mainland freedom just over a mile away. On Alcatraz, the island’s prison gardens are in full flower 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The retro quality of the play’s perspective can feel almost mournful, rather than enriched with the benefit of hindsight. ‘Zoey’s Perfect Wedding’ Review: The Bride’s Big Disaster 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z The crowd viewed the images in mournful silence. Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Her look of bewildered sadness draws the viewer in so powerfully that one can almost miss the profile of a mournful Robert Kennedy just to her right. Snaps by Elliott Erwitt – review 2013-04-01T08:00:02Z This season is simultaneously mournful and playful, full of dramatic showpieces and inspired absurdities. Review: ‘The Leftovers’ Has One More Cosmic Joke to Tell 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Moulds conducts the ensemble with crisp attack but also a taste for long lines that matches the production’s restrained, mournful atmosphere. Review: In ‘L’Orfeo,’ Free Spirit and Brave Soul Unite 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z In some establishments, mournful dirges played while coffins were carried through the crowds of drinkers; in others, the walls were hung with black crepe. How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies 2012-08-25T23:05:52Z Classic sci-fi puts us on guard in pleasant situations like this — “Soylent Green is people!” — but Faber has something more subtle and mournful in mind. Book review: ‘The Book of Strange New Things,’ by Michel Faber Gurses, who recorded more than a dozen albums, was best known for his mournful tunes blending Turkish folk instruments with Arabic melodies. Turkish singer Muslum Gurses dies 2013-03-03T14:37:09Z Justin Bailey, narrator of this mournful tale, knows the glory of American automobiles is already past, but that patina of nostalgia only makes the cars more irresistible. ‘The Spark and the Drive,’ by Wayne Harrison They howl, yelp and bleat at all hours, like mournful electric coyotes. Learning to Listen to, and Beyond, the Siren’s Call 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Melford is justly regarded as a fixture of the avant-garde, but in this band, with resources like Mr. Ellman’s light-fingered precision and Mr. Miles’s mournful but succulent tone, she strives for dynamic approachability. Review: Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Subtly Recalls Its Inspiration 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z And in the quasi-operatic “Caroline, or Change,” she breathes life not only into the Black and Jewish characters but also into several inanimate objects, from a beatific moon to an angry, mournful city bus. Jeanine Tesori’s Gift: Conjuring the Storytelling Potency of Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z First track Light Years is marvellous and magically mournful. New band of the day – Poindexter (No 1,393) 2012-11-12T17:17:50Z Gauzy and slightly out of focus, the shot of the seated Einstein was not technically perfect, but it captured him in an unguarded moment, looking ruminative, perhaps mournful. Marilyn Stafford, a Photojournalist Rediscovered, Dies at 97 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z His voice is a sweet high-tenor croon, right in Michael Jackson’s range, while his songs — most of them slow, mournful and monumental — painstakingly explain how that sweetness is mostly a lie. Review: The Weeknd Tiptoes Toward Intimacy, Then Retreats 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z “The Civil War” was mournful, but at least the Union was preserved. Review: Ken Burns’s ‘Vietnam War’ Will Break Your Heart and Win Your Mind 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z A face, its features only half-realized, emerges with eerie, mournful anger out of gruff black brush strokes. ‘Gatsby to Garp,’ a Feast of First Editions at the Morgan 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z And at other moments, the best moments, Gerle's impressive score takes on a more soulful, mournful air and a populist musical vocabulary more akin to “Ragtime” or “Parade.” Porchlight's 'John Doe' has heart but not enough romance 2011-03-09T23:28:06Z It begins with Bulgarian-style vocal harmonies and moves to four mournful piano chords as Stromae considers how “It’s crazy how many people have thought the same.” FKA twigs Seeks Angelic Intervention, and 10 More New Songs 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z At 48, with his erect posture, blunt features and mournful ice-blue eyes, he gives off the intimidating air of an aging middleweight boxer who still has a few knockout punches left in him. Guerrilla Fashion: The Story of Supreme 2012-11-21T22:29:38Z Cottin has a whole munitions depot of self-possession and chicness that gives her performance a more knowing, and also more mournful, edge. The French Fleabag: 'Viewers in France are shocked by the sexuality' 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Because these actors are Weisz, on whose beautiful face emotions flicker like fireflies, and Shannon, whose faintly mournful expressions imply a profound story not yet told, the film is never less than interesting. ‘Complete Unknown’ review: Mystery lingers in this uneasy mix of romance, suspense 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Soon, fragments of themes and a mournful solo cello line try to emerge into something definitive. Review: The Philharmonic Hails Sibelius, and Offers Joshua Bell on a Mendelssohn 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z The crowd, standing ankle-deep in mud as the rain lashed down, sang along to "Waitin' on a Sunny Day" then listened in hushed mood to a mournful "The River", his ballad of youth's crushed dreams. Springsteen storms through London marathon 2012-07-15T11:02:01Z Indeed, here’s to one not-so-distant day being mournful for the right reasons. Week 1: 'Selma Rises' and Lack of Actress Contenders Rankles 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Her piece, with sheer, oscillating textures that were elegantly conveyed, opened with a mournful introduction whose mood evolved into a more lively and humorous middle section. Music Review: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-16T19:24:56Z He is a lovely, mournful observer of Detroit’s people. Books of The Times: Watching a Once-Proud Piece of Detroit Disappear 2011-01-18T16:57:38Z Boseman's voice work on "What If...?" represents his final performance and knowing that hangs a mournful weight upon it despite the boisterousness sparkle in the actor's voice. Chadwick Boseman's posthumous Marvel performance packs an emotional wallop befitting his legacy 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The “her” he referred to was a tintype image of an indigenous woman who stares at the camera with an expression that Mr. Miller called “serene, but resolved. A little mournful, but also resilient.” Illuminating the Plight of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z But even a brain-freezing temperature of below 50 degrees can't mar the cogent profundity of Anthony Heald's Shylock — a performance devoid of posturing and suffused with a mournful awareness of "otherness." Oregon Shakespeare Festival celebrates 75th year with intriguing interpretations 2010-06-25T21:24:00Z The lighting, by Connie Yun, was highly varied and occasionally disconcerting, as when the stage was suddenly bathed in purple to accompany a mournful aria. Seattle Opera, with help of a few friends, presents opera-play hybrid ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Abramovic, with her extravagant costume, her bent shoulders and her mournful gaze, is the prima donna. Art: Marina Abramovic?s Silent Sitting at MoMA Reaches Finale 2010-05-30T22:22:00Z Emin’s oeuvre has only ever orbited one thing: herself, in her many mournful, voluptuous, warty, wild and furious incarnations. With ‘Lovers Grave,’ Tracey Emin Returns, at Full Emotional Volume 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z She brought crisp intonation to some mournful melodic lines that described the historical dearth of spaces for the neighborhood’s children “to sing or dance or act a part.” Two Gems of June: Premieres at Carnegie Hall and Harlem School of the Arts 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z The empathy on Brian's mournful face suggests that, if he could just find the killer of this one victim, he could somehow expiate the misery of all of them. Movie review of Texas Killing Fields 2011-10-14T14:25:00Z The sound is distinct, often as mournful as it is danceable. How Novalima modernizes and revives Peru's African roots music 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z He’s tall with large, mournful brown eyes and a body made of regenerating twigs—a huggable look, though in practice he would probably be a little pokey. “I am Groot”: The secret environmental messaging buried in “Guardians of the Galaxy” 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z In her emotional telling of the story, there was a sense of grief over some innocence that was lost, and her clothes took on a mournful tone. Perspective | Kamala Harris embraced black. That was both unremarkable and theatrically powerful. 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z His voice cracking with emotion against a mournful banjo melody, it's a performance full of potential, and justly rewarded by rapt attention from the audience. Dylan LeBlanc 2010-09-17T20:47:00Z Displaying the same allegiance to dance as the earliest Greek dramas, it mines the martial, confrontational qualities of flamenco, and the mournful ones as well. Review: ‘Antigona,’ From Noche Flamenca, Pairs Rhythmic Dance With Greek Drama 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The set, which incorporated a wide range of vocal techniques and sounds, included the energetic counterpoint of “Playing in the Waves,” the colorful “Yes, Yes, Yes” and the mournful “E-U-R-Y-D-I-C-E.” Music Review: 13 Hours of Sounds and Psychedelia 2011-06-24T21:33:31Z In the slow, mournful aria and eerily focused passacaglia he played with a rich, velvety tone and an irresistible sense of line while sacrificing nothing of Ligeti’s angularity. Music Review: Having Fun Across Generations 2010-12-20T22:45:45Z The work, one of a series of murals painted last June in the French capital and attributed to Banksy, showed a veiled female figure in a mournful pose. Banksy homage to Bataclan stolen from Paris theater 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z As the end credits rolled on the new “Goodnight Mommy,” I decided the mournful 1970s tune, “Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma,” would have made a better title. For the Love (and the Hate) of the Horror Remake 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z As with Sharif’s elegy, there is a mournful sense of the impossible about Long Soldier’s poem. Why you should be reading poet Layli Long Soldier 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Similarly, the song “History Has Its Eyes on You” takes on an even more mournful resonance than before. Even without Lin-Manuel, 'Hamilton' opens in San Francisco as vital as ever 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z Castillo embraces an expansive ambiguity — of language, of gender, of nationality — that can sound celebratory and mournful at once. New & Noteworthy 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z There’s none of the mournful sentimentality that has colored other virtual presentations here and elsewhere; the theater has never looked so fresh, so full of promise. Review: Reveling in the Tap Magic of Ayodele Casel 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z 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 Hoistion responded to the news with a mournful message on Twitter. You didn’t need SkyMall’s pet hammock, you said. Are you sure? 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The two main characters—a lonely, ostracized boy and the creepy, bedraggled girl who befriends him—are as somber and mournful as the chilly, austere landscape. Hollywood Goes to Sweden 2010-02-18T17:04:00Z Bill Clegg’s debut novel, “Did You Ever Have a Family,” arrives amid a thunderclap of industry hubbub that any writer of quiet, mournful fiction would die for. Bill Clegg’s ‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ navigates grief and recovery 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Moving, beautiful, mournful and uplifting, talent met talent, words met images and postwar England met its wisest cultural thinker. The best visual art event of 2012 2012-12-05T19:00:03Z The song is a mournful confession and, depending on how you hear it, possibly not entirely truthful. A girl's skeleton in the museum: On runaways, the Jersey Shore and a cold case that haunted me 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z More mournful than frightening, the dybbuk may upend the celebrations, but the revelers do far more damage. Review: In ‘Demon,’ Wedding Jitters From the Uninvited Dead 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z One particularly mournful chap added: “I am sick to the teeth of this “anything you men can do” c***, by these odd feminists”. From breast-grabbing to ‘hottest fan’ galleries, is this World Cup the most sexist? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Directed by Robert Connolly, it’s a mournful, stodgy, girl-meets-fish drama about the emotional cost of protecting the planet from its most rapacious predator: the land developer. ‘Blueback’ Review: A Heart for the Ocean 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Once a year every human must recommit to the familial cult by lighting a cake on fire while clan members chant a mournful dirge. Style Invitational Week 1454: Punku 3 — haiku with a pun, duh 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Jones was at his best with cry-in-your-beer songs and his masterful phrasing made them extra mournful. Country singer George Jones dead at 81 2013-04-26T15:12:10Z “Make it sound a little more mournful, like crying for the world.” How “Songland” Tries and Fails to Honor the Songwriter 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z The strongest parts of “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” where this novel picks up genuine force and has some of the mournful resonance of the Bruce Springsteen song “The River,” arrive in its second half. ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ Captures a Young Immigrant’s Troubles and Ecstasies 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z More than a retelling of Vassily’s story, “Young Heroes” is a memoir of Halberstadt’s family and the country where he was born — a loving and mournful account that’s also skeptical, surprising and often very funny. Writing a Family Memoir When Your Grandfather Was Stalin’s Bodyguard 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Here, it was as if the sentiment of “Lamento” had surfaced in mournful lyricism and waves of rage. Review: Dvorak’s ‘Poetic Tone Pictures’ Makes Its Carnegie Debut 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z He'd written these very sad, mournful poems as he roamed about the Korean countryside. Ko Un's First Person Sorrowful offers a window into an extraordinary life 2012-11-08T10:31:52Z The result was a mournful country ballad full of yearning. Elton John, the Beach Boys and the fine art of pop alchemy 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z Halberstadt has written a history of his family and the country where he was born — a loving and mournful account that’s also skeptical, surprising and often very funny. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z That moment came Sunday night in a retrospective, mournful episode that matched the tone of the marketing around Lincoln’s exit. ‘The Walking Dead’ Says Goodbye to Andrew Lincoln. Sort Of. 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z On the whole, Williams’s book is more rigorous than mournful, an account of solutions more than of problems, marked by self-deprecating humor and acute sensitivity. How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink Race 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Stourton gives a funny but mournful performance as a man screaming “I’m not crazy” into a void. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Richards' death left Taylor mournful for a long time, and the actress was mystified about why. Holland Taylor plays 'the thrill of a lifetime' 2013-02-21T14:13:10Z As a cello played by Aoife Burke provides mournful underscoring, a spectator gets rewarding insight into the breakdown of a tragic coupling. Perspective | In London, the shows go on — but apathy is unmasked 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The 1964 repeats, of which Warhol did five, are much cheerier works, bigger and brighter and crisper, far more celebratory than mournful. When a Warhol for $225 Has More Heft Than One for $195 Million 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Through it all, he kept touring and recording, singing mournful songs that continued to ring true. George Jones, Country Singer, Dies at 81 2013-04-26T14:38:56Z I should, undoubtedly, be in a more mournful mode, given the sorry states in which Saul and Carrie now find themselves. 'Homeland' Recap: Yes, That Was Only a Drug-Fueled Hallucination 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z His picture of a woman in a long black dress arranging flowers in a softly lighted room — empty but for a big, black cylindrical stove in a corner — is hauntingly beautiful and gently mournful. Art Review: ?Luminous Modernism? at Scandinavia House - Review 2011-12-01T22:55:09Z It’s no wonder so many singers and rappers sound mournful, defensive or belligerent, even when they’re boasting. Pop Music in 2019: An Escape From Isolation? 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z As the Auschwitz Memorial accurately pointed out in response, “everyone has the right to personal reflections. However, inside a former gas chamber, there should be mournful silence. It’s not a stage.” Clay Higgins’ Auschwitz video and reality TV’s takeover of American politics 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Introspective, mournful passages meshed into frantic fiddling in the evocative work, which received its premiere here. Music Review: Tribeca New Music Festival Features Jack Quartet 2010-06-06T22:14:00Z “Jerusalem,” Jez Butterworth’s beautiful, funny and mournful comedy about the fraying fabric of English culture, is steeped in a specific language that simply wouldn’t sound the same without the specifics of vocal inflection. Stage Accents Trouble American and British Actors 2010-03-21T21:41:00Z Not surprisingly, Elizabeth's joy in her late-found happiness is mixed with reminders of early hardships, and the notional rejection the form seems to demand produces some heavily mournful Victorian postures in many of the sonnets. Poem of the week: Sonnets from the Portuguese, No 43, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2010-05-24T14:28:00Z She demonstrated her sad-edged, no-nonsense vocal style on Curse the Day, before moving on to the gently swinging Windy Day, and the complex, mournful and drifting The Gap. Marry Waterson and Oliver?Knight - review 2011-03-13T14:40:47Z Beth Orton, accompanied only by guitar and piano, fills “Go Down Easy” with mournful longing. New Music: The Dude Sings 2011-08-15T22:07:21Z His landscape sketches and portraits of friends will be displayed with texts of his mournful, patriotic poems about persecution and censorship. Antiques: Current Events Imperil Ukrainian Museum Show 2014-04-24T21:32:44Z Marilyn Stasio of Variety wrote that "the lyrical language of Sting’s mournful score gives poetic voice to the distressed shipbuilders, but depicting their story as a heroic allegory is regrettably alienating." Sting musical 'The Last Ship' opens on Broadway to mixed reviews 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z That sequence — like the rest of the mournful but ultimately satisfying finale — turned out exceptionally well. Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys Break Down the ‘Devastating’ Finale of ‘The Americans’ 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The Mexican singer Blue Rojo works up a mournful crescendo of accusations in “Inframundo,” telling a woman who left him that “you no longer exist for me.” ‘Wakanda Forever’ Forges International Alliances on a Somber Soundtrack 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z An equally crucial musical component is the magnetic resonator piano, which pulses through the mournful blare of set opener Spiral and the abstraction of Fragment Two. These New Puritans – review 2013-06-20T16:59:19Z In telling us all of this, Vollmann repeats phrases throughout the two volumes, sometimes as mournful echoes and elsewhere as sarcastic commentary. William T. Vollmann Would Like a Word or Two About Climate Change. Or 1,200 Pages. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Fleck accidentally becomes a vigilante symbol when he is spotted gunning down three bankers on the subway, face painted like a mournful jester. Joker strives to capture our cultural moment – but it’s smug and banal at heart 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z There's nothing so obvious as a rocker, but a selection of understated, troubled anthems hinge on Matt Berninger's mournful baritone and wonderfully diverse lyrics. The National: High Violet 2010-05-06T22:30:00Z Woven through the 11 interconnected tales is a thread of the grotesque, the macabre, the mournful. Review: `Revenge' filled with haunting prose 2013-01-29T21:01:05Z This time, as it does at just a few shows, it featured live music, which emphasized certain qualities, both mournful and celebratory, and above all created a moving canvas for reflection. Review: At Alvin Ailey, Tragic Themes Overwhelm a Dance 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z But one of the stronger pieces was also the most straightforward: “Manhattan Bridge,” a ballad of mournful beauty. Music Review | Chris Dingman: Vibraphonist Dazzles, but Without Fanfare 2010-03-19T21:36:00Z Brows are knitted to mournful cellos, Poppy shouts from a motorway bridge, and there's a lot of staring out to sea, which inevitably brings on further flashbacks. TV review: The Ice Cream Girls 2013-04-20T07:00:44Z But “Life” is far from an elegy; it’s by turns mournful, searching and celebratory, even transcendent. Review: A Pianist’s Profound Vision of ‘Life,’ in Just 2 Hours 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z After a second viewing of Paul Thomas Anderson’s comic, mournful and gorgeous L.A. elegy “Inherent Vice” – the first-ever screen adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel – I no longer suspect it of being an “interesting failure.” “Inherent Vice”: Pynchon meets Anderson in an absurd, glorious search for meaning, circa 1970 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z He dedicated his “Irkanda IV,” which features a mournful violin lament, to his father. Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Steeped in Australia’s Sounds, Dies at 85 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, on the mournful “Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris,” which features backing vocals from the indie all-stars boygenius, Williams conjures poignant imagery: Hayley Williams Lays Down New Roots on Her First Solo Album 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z He’s feeling the full range of his lushness here, from the exuberant horns on “Cupid” and a pointedly romantic sax on “Naked” to the clustered, mournful guitars on “This Is 4 My Baby.” New Music: New CDs by David Weiss and Lloyd 2011-07-05T00:30:51Z As Brian, Cooper gets the chance to prolong both the rowdy and mournful moods of “American Sniper” while touching on little that connects them. Cameron Crowe's Reactionary Nostalgia 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z But onstage in “Smile at Us, Oh Lord,” a mournful, dreamlike play from the Vakhtangov State Academic Theater in Moscow, the line doesn’t even get a smirk from the stolid stonecutter Efraim Dudak. Review: ‘Smile at Us, Oh Lord’ Depicts a Jewish Odyssey 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z The script, while often mournful, allows him to show a playful side and a gift, neglected in Hollywood, for physical comedy. ‘Walking With Ghosts’ Review: Gabriel Byrne Roams His Past 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Just as the last time he sang this role at the Met, in 2011, it seemed only appropriate that the opera ends not with Lucia’s madness but with Edgardo’s mournful tomb scene. Review: In ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ at the Met, Singing Through Sickness 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z "Cold as Stone," the prettiest song, combines mournful bluegrass sensibilities, layered string and flute melodies and strong chemistry between Scott and Kelley. Lady Antebellum leads fall album releases 2011-09-13T00:40:46Z “He makes me do things I don’t wanna do,” Autumn sings, braving it alone onstage and turning a 1963 pop hosanna into something close to a mournful protest. ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ Review: A Woman’s Heroic Journey 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Rachel Bay Jones is immensely touching as Evan’s mother, who has raised him by herself and grows mournful as she sees her son entering the orbit of another family. Review: In ‘Dear Evan Hansen,’ a Lonely Teenager, a Viral Lie and a Breakout Star 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Purcell’s “Funeral March” was a new, thunderous addition, opening with deep, heavy drums before the trumpets enter, both mournful and heraldic. What Music to Expect at Queen Elizabeth II’s Funeral 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z I’d have to say it’s “Ellen’s Eyes,” a beautiful, mournful and strange book written by David Scott, the father of my son’s former high school basketball teammate. Miriam Toews Gets Nervous When People Assume She’s Read the Classics 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Lilting bright guitar with a Brazilian slant and Michael Owens' threadbare falsetto lead the way on a song about a mother's faraway son, while the mournful brass underscores the lyrical sentiment. November's best music from across the MAP 2012-11-15T09:00:00Z Had to get the train," he begins, in that familiar, mournful tremor of a voice, "from Potsdamer Platz / You never knew that …" before the orchestration swells to a chorus of: "Where are we now? Listen now to David Bowie's Where Are We Now? 2013-01-08T08:01:11Z Nor did he aim for that sentimentality in his encore, the third movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat: a heroic funeral march, here more dignified than mournful. Review: Two Artists Arrive at the Philharmonic, Loudly 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z To Samuel Barber’s familiar “Agnus Dei,” choral music as mournful as the movement, the dancers broke away from the clump one by one, a recurring device: one person leading, the rest following. ‘Monte/Buglisi/Muller Live!’ at New York Live Arts 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Joplin sang it unaccompanied, and although Boden paradoxically adds a mournful concertina, he's happy to classify it as a folk song. Jon Boden's big singalong 2010-07-28T21:15:00Z Many members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, including Ernest Borgnine, refused to even watch Ang Lee’s mournful cowboy ballad. “Moonlight” is the first LGBT movie to win best picture. Here’s why it matters 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z And, as she moves through it, you note the white sheets draped over the furniture and the medical hand-bar over the grandmother’s bed, a mournful reminder of past difficulties. ‘Petite Maman’ Review: Into the Woods 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z “Let’s listen to it first, then talk about it,” he said, and the sound of two trombones joined in mournful melodies played from the speakers behind him. Seattle’s Julian Priester helped create jazz as we know it. Now, he’s focusing on teaching the art of listening 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z The first movement asks, “What person would not weep seeing the Mother of Christ in such agony?” at first gently with a mournful, melismatic soprano solo — then aggressively, with collective shouting. A ‘Stabat Mater’ for the 21st Century, Colored by a Composer’s Faith 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Life for her is paradox — playful, mournful, always unpredictable. María Irene Fornés, ever the teacher, continues to instruct 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z But on this one night, when he sings a mournful “Bye Bye Blackbird” and revels in “the smell of the desert after the rain,” he’s capable of being touched emotionally. Howard Hughes, and His Quirks, on the Big Screen 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z There was a mournful descending harmonica line, leading into a noble, melancholy string section – huge and sad, it sighed but never sobbed. John Barry: The composer who was as pop as the Beatles 2011-01-31T12:49:27Z There was a mournful Blue Period Picasso and a large and wiry Surrealist abstraction by Joan Miro. LACMA's 'Space Sculpture' shot from center stage to oblivion 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z I read most of Gallen’s mournful comedy aloud to my wife, and even with my mangled Irish brogue, we loved it. Review | Make room for ‘Big Girl, Small Town’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z "Ashes of Laughter / The ghost is clear / Why do the best things always disappear," Helm sings with emotive enunciation of Robertson's mournful lyrics. How Robbie Robertson's hidden Indigenous and Jewish heritage influenced The Band's mournful songs 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z The encores included two mournful, bitter songs about the toll of war and violence: “Shipbuilding” and “For More Tears,” both accompanied by sparse, hymnlike keyboard chords. Elvis Costello Treats Carnegie Hall to a Solo Show 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z That exhaustive, full-body sorrow, what Saul Bellow called “the rock depth of heavy trouble,” simply doesn’t come across in shots of mournful faces or sad-looking actors staring vacantly into the middle distance. ‘No Future’ Review: On a Downward Spiral 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It is mournful but solid, even defiant, and the chorus sang it with moving integrity, though the sopranos were strained by the high tessitura. Music Review: A New Church Organ, With Vocal Celebration 2011-06-09T22:54:43Z In Anton Dudley’s fanciful and leaden “City Of,” four Americans find themselves in Paris, stumbling upon vermin, absinthe, Paul Verlaine and Pierre, the mournful chunk of statuary. ‘City Of,’ by Anton Dudley, Has People and Parisian Statues 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z There is no turning back as this epic tale unspools to its mournful conclusion, the dance drama punctuated with memorable characterizations. Swoons and swordplay in Ratmansky's 'Romeo and Juliet' 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The mournful undertones in "Never Have I Ever" cast Devi's frantic struggle sympathetically. Mindy Kaling's smart teen sex romp "Never Have I Ever" may be her best series yet 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z Her stage persona is funny, irreverent and approachable, her band is terrific and her songs cycle lushly through a whole range of moods, from dance-party exuberance to mournful darkness. Review: ‘{my lingerie play},’ a Glitter-Dusted, Song-Filled Call for Liberation 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Under the astute eye of the director, Rachel Chavkin — one of the most gifted working today — the show remains a witty, inventive enchantment from rousing start to mournful finish. Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,’ on the Heels of ‘Hamilton’ 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z She slowed down “Highway to Hell” to a mournful crawl. On The Runway: At Paris Fashion Week, Designers Play Live Mood Music 2014-03-07T21:25:42Z The album concludes with another Argentine connection: “Agárrate,” which starts as a mournful tango-bolero — complete with a bandoneon, the definitive tango accordion — before suddenly shifting gears into aggressive hip-hop. A Newcomer to Watch at the Latin Grammys: Nathy Peluso 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The music reaches its expressive apex in the section called "Asturianada," in which Rami Solomonow's eloquent viola suggested the mournful intensity of Shostakovich's string quartet writing. Frank's energetic chamber works reveal multi-cultural roots 2011-01-19T16:19:49Z Throughout the record, Morrison uses a mournful falsetto, which is a vocal approach that he didn’t employ often in his earliest records and almost certainly can’t employ anymore. Ben Greenman's essay 'Questions/Answers' seeks questions in songs that aren't always answered 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z "Reunion" was always a dichotomy -- with its jolly, carefree music played over such sullen lyrics as "I can't for the life of me remember a sadder day" and "this strange and mournful day." Paul Simon takes graying fans on world tour 2011-04-25T05:21:26Z High points were the chirping wrong-note grace notes of the woodwinds in the “Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks” and the deep sounds of the ox cart in “Bydlo,” more mournful than brawny. Guest conductor sets a fast tempo for Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z The selections reached back to early Americana that includes a carping song about Congress and a take that reduced “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” to a mournful dirge. Review | The fabulous Taylor Mac gives D.C. a sample of his reinvented Americana 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Consider HBO’s The Leftovers a post-postapocalyptic drama–a moody, mournful story not concerned with why the world-shaking event happened but how people carry on afterward. REVIEW: The Leftovers Hurts, So Good 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z But while "Blackthorn" is still a Western about Cassidy, it's about life in exile and its tone is mournful. Atypical sequels abound at Tribeca Film Festival 2011-04-27T17:57:08Z It combines mournful ballads with more upbeat rhythms and a Latin American influence. Cape Verde singer Cesaria Evora ends career at 70 2011-09-23T11:46:09Z Another veteran of fertility testing, a TV producer who wishes to remain anonymous, found that the only way he could deal with the “grimness” of the procedures and the mournful waiting rooms was through humour. The male infertility crisis: ‘My failure at fatherhood ate away at my very being’ 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z I found it structurally overwrought and emotionally underwhelming, straining for higher meaning, eager to wring some last drops of mournful power from a site that is already crammed with official, semi-official and indirect memorials. The newly opened $4-billion World Trade Center transit hub is overwrought and underwhelming 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z And for “Reality,” a mournful but benign breakup song, he sat solo playing electric piano, an instrument he hadn’t yet touched, as if hinting that there’s still more of his music to be discovered. Music Review: Allen Stone at S.O.B.?s - Review 2011-11-10T22:29:19Z Sixties style and sixties substance—the long throw of the New Left in political life, private life, and popular culture—converge, by way of gleefully idealistic imagination and mournful bitterness, in “The Big Lebowski.” What to Stream Over Thanksgiving: The Best Film by the Coen Brothers 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The nine-person orchestra — guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, some mournful strings — stays silent, too. ‘The Outsiders’ Review: Growing Pains Both Brutal and Poetic 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Abstract synthetic compositions interwoven with mournful strings move through various stages with a lyrical sharpness uninterested in tact. Essential albums of 2015: Bjork, Kendrick and 8 others on the edge of pop 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z The album opens not with bouncy rock but with the wordless vocal harmonies and mournful descending chords of a track called “Think About the Days.” New Music: New Releases From the Beach Boys and Alan Jackson 2012-06-04T22:19:12Z That question hangs heavy over a muted, mournful, practically plotless episode, which is mostly about characters’ coming to grips with The End. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 6: The End Is Near 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Hampson’s powerful baritone projected easily in the hall, his expressive voice conveying the drama and mood changes among the mournful, angry and ironic songs. Music Review: Thomas Hampson Sings Schumann, Uncut, at Alice Tully 2010-04-12T22:36:00Z The battle itself is represented in freeze-frame to a mournful song, and the celebratory finale that follows has enough percussive footwork to overpower an artillery barrage. ‘It’s Not Only Margaritas’: The Story of Cinco de Mayo in Dance 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z His voice is honeyed and mournful, and many of the tracks leave it bravely exposed: just a lightly strummed guitar, brushes on the drums, perhaps a distant piano or a harmony vocal. New Music: Nathaniel Rateliff and Regina Carter Release Albums 2014-03-31T22:07:29Z "Seriously?" he inquired as he returned to the stage for a final time, closing the show with a mournful Sometimes It Snows In April. Prince makes Leeds concert debut 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z There were no mournful speeches or moments of silence - just a simple, soulful rendition of a Houston classic. The Roots pay tribute to Houston at pre-Grammy jam 2012-02-12T21:49:08Z The mournful album about a failed relationship is the year's best-selling disc with over 4.5 million copies sold. Adele may be rolling deep with Grammy nominations 2011-11-30T13:13:09Z A harmonica player named Mel Lyman, one of many musicians upset by Dylan’s plugging in, took the unlit stage at the event’s end, Walsh tells us, and blew a mournful version of “Rock of Ages.” 1968 Revisited: A Boston Commune and a Van Morrison Classic 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z 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 At more than 700 pages, this is the longest book in the series, the most mournful — and the slackest. Hilary Mantel’s Triumphant New Novel Brings Thomas Cromwell Across the Finish Line 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z They are “mournful and slinking, crushed beneath their yoke.” Before the Holocaust, Jewish Suffering Had One Name: Kishinev 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Barnes announced his presence with a mournful fiddle solo, and received a raucous reception from the crowd. Where the Hills and Hollows Are Alive With Music 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z It is the bleakest, most mournful book by an author celebrated for his barbed tongue and high silliness. A New Novel Stars the Dupes, Villains and Victims of America’s Forever War 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z With an almost mournful, ritual sense, he spotlights each thought and argument. The assassins are back in Folger’s spooky ‘Caesar’ With his characteristically mournful vigour, Morley described days as an NME journalist, at record company ZTT, and his fascinating memoir, Nothing. Manchester international festival: music gives it some fight 2011-07-13T15:44:25Z "Pullman Porter Blues" starts with the mournful work chant of a railway chain gang, followed by the breezy singing of Pullman porters, as they apply spit and polish to a snazzy sleeper car. 'Pullman Porter Blues' carries pungent blues and heavy melodrama 2012-10-05T20:06:04Z “I love being part of a place that has a special relationship to painting,” she said with a mournful laugh, “except that I’m not part of that place.” Can a New Arts Center Revitalize Provincetown? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z There’s something mournful about this tale, but Bradbury’s explosive imagination tempers the darkness. Review | Clowns are creepy. Let's talk about horror, science-fiction and fantasy books that make the most of circus settings. 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z These appreciations of aging and death are far from mournful. Groupe Bakomanga and Asase Yaa Perform at DanceAfrica 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Always On is somehow mournful but manic, with a mad synth noise – sheer sonic graffiti – completely at odds with the vocal melody. Silver Columns (No 746) 2010-03-16T17:25:00Z Mr. Tillier looked into his eyes, then started to play a slow, mournful piece. Solo for Flute, Airport Terminal and One Listener 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Then, over a mournful instrumental, a monologue began—a man’s voice, reading the words of the Civil War soldier Sullivan Ballou, written to his wife, Sarah, in July of 1861. Swooning to the Strangeness of Bon Iver 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Sometimes a book sells itself: Oh, Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel is a mournful allegory about artificial intelligence and the challenges of human connection? 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Still, last winter, as he faced the imminent denuding of his walls, he was mournful. A Collector Follows His Nose Through the Maze of Modern Art 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Alden’s bouncy, mournful, occasionally abstract production seems to use a pirate’s line, “This is queer,” as mischievous inspiration. Review: A Stranger, Sexier Version of ‘Peter Pan’? It’s Leonard Bernstein’s 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z The final gallery is titled “Death and Sacrifice,” and everything in it — including Jacques Lipchitz’s 1943 sculpture “The Prayer” and Picasso’s large but sketchy still life “Chair With Gladiolas” from the same year — looks mournful. Art Review | 'Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris': Picasso and Peers at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2010-04-01T22:49:00Z With mournful vocals over descending chords, eventually joined by full orchestra and choir Kiwanuka sings about how love “rescued me from a nightmare.” Britney Spears and Elton John’s Mash-up, and 8 More New Songs 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The title notwithstanding, the master’s latest work — mischievous, mournful and maddeningly elusive — is fairly chatty. A Brief Look at 10 New York Film Festival Features 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z If a show opens with a mosque bathed in dim light and mournful Middle Eastern music, then this must be a drama about Washington and the war on terrorism. ‘Madam Secretary’ and ‘The Good Wife,’ TV’s Mighty Women 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Eventually, some photographers, including Stoddard, pictured damage, as in a mournful image, circa 1888, of a man in a dead landscape of skeletal trees drowned by floods, a visual call for better management and preservation. How the East Was Won: A Photographic Portrait 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z When the current lineup of legendary rock band Thin Lizzy toured last month, one of the highlights was an emotional performance of Still in Love With You, their mournful ballad from 1974. Gary Moore: the guitarist as gunslinger 2011-02-07T13:52:27Z For the first time there was a vivid sense, simultaneously ecstatic and mournful, of the violent beauty of spirituals and their influence, why they might still matter. Music Review: American Hymns, Both Classic and Reimagined 2011-05-11T20:49:08Z “Hello” and “All I Ask” started low and sultry and ascended to full belting; “A Million Years Ago” was a mournful acoustic melodrama. Adele Arrives in an Arena at Last 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z It ends now in the mournful uncertainties of "What Happened? The Michaels Abroad," set on Sept. 8, 2021, the 18th month of a global pandemic. Review | Playwright Richard Nelson ends his epic cycle of hyper-realistic drama with — what else? — a global pandemic 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Yet he was a supremely subtle, and surprisingly mournful, interpreter of songs, especially those by Jimmy Webb. Glen Campbell: One last love song 2011-08-26T22:01:04Z The all-new Together employs Spanish guitar and strings in place of the original's 80s electro pulse, and shines a new light on its mood, making it celebratory where it once felt mournful. Patrick Wolf: Sundark and Riverlight – review 2012-10-11T22:00:18Z His voice could be a haunting, mournful rasp, conveying mystery or, as he got older, weariness and vulnerability. Mark Lanegan, Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age Singer, Dies at 57 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z But the mournful, lovesick crooning of a countertenor elephant may touch them quite in spite of themselves. The Firework-Maker's Daughter; Hallé Orchestra/Elder; Cheryomushki – review 2013-03-31T00:07:03Z We somberly chuckled in that bittersweet, mournful manner, but it resonated with me. Every time I eat tuna, I’m honoring my father 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z In its mournful and death-steeped view of Monrovia’s somnolent and baffled residents, Wiseman’s film struck me as a documentary version of a zombie film. “The Dead Don’t Die,” Reviewed: Jim Jarmusch’s Fiercely Political Zombie Comedy 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s mournful and mordantly funny, absurdist but dedicated to the search for meaning. ‘The Leftovers’ Leads Television’s Musical Golden Age 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “Soon,” we are told, to the sound of a mournful clarinet, “the Arctic Sea is dotted with tiny bobbing bodies.” Planet Earth II and the bloodthirsty evolution of the nature documentary 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z In a gentle Irish accent, Shaw is at turns mournful and at others table-flipping angry. Review: There's something (weird) about Mary 2013-04-23T02:16:03Z The other instruments don’t enter until about seven and a half minutes in, when the clarinet and brasses offer a chorale-like interlude, mournful and dignified. A Requiem, Derailed by the Pandemic, Arrives When It’s Needed Most 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z His music is dark, depressing, mournful and deeply beautiful in its spiritually gloom-ridden way. Review: Make this L.A. Chamber Orchestra guest conductor feel at home 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z After a brief pause, James Habisohn, a senior at Brother Rice who is friends with Lowry's sister, stepped forward and played taps on his trumpet, the song's mournful notes the only sound piercing the silence. Fallen Marine 'was meant to serve others' 2012-03-10T02:52:00Z In contrast to Morris’s shakily founded optimism, there was a mournful side to the Pre-Raphaelite legacy. ‘The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy’ at the Met Is a Journey Back 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z No mournful horns, no soaring strings, just a weekly reminder that the drama of recovery is its lack of drama. ‘Elementary’ affirms its place as the smartest study of recovery on TV 2014-04-24T19:18:54Z Mr. Kang brought an appropriately mournful tone to the melody, before an earthy solo by Mr. Frisell, using a chorus effect on his guitar. Music Review: Floating Along on the Rhythm While Staying Anchored to the Beat 2011-04-20T21:48:56Z The MoMA installation is tightly paced and high decibel; the one at PS1, which includes a trove of works on paper, is comparatively mellow and mournful. 22 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z In 1940, Irving Berlin penned “White Christmas,” that woozy, mournful standard that wished for snow from a sunny California office. Here are the 10 most annoying Christmas songs of all time 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z As for her compositions, Abercrombie favored empty stillness — whether threatening or gently mournful. This Surrealist Is Having a Moment, 66 Years After Her Last New York Show 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Behold: Kelly, the disciplined chaos-ender, was registering his disappointment with the entire administration in the form of a mournful staring contest with flatware. Perspective | John Kelly and the myth of the ‘adult in the room’ 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z The music had been heavy on elegy: alternately noble or mournful, sometimes formal, sometimes severe and agitated. Music Review: ‘Ten Freedom Summers,’ by Wadada Leo Smith 2013-05-03T05:55:12Z There was direct emulation of Mr. Taylor’s pianism in the careful disruptions and variations of attack, and in one stuttering rumble that opened in a mournful bloom. Review: Celebrating Cecil Taylor, a Pianist of Endless Influence 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z This is something I don’t usually say in front of Pillow people, because, of course, I’m supposed to be devastated and mournful. What Do Two Fires Have In Common? It Comes Down to Guts. 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z “Not Without Laughter” includes lyrics to songs that are mournful, bawdy, vengeful and downright silly. How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z In the hushed first movement of Schubert’s Fantasy, a mournful violin theme emerges over delicate tremolos and rustling trills in the piano, music that in this rapt performance seemed profoundly mystical. Gidon Kremer and Daniil Trifonov Team Up at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z And when a small army of harmonicas gently peeked out from behind the work’s often mournful textures, they glimmered delicately. Review: At the Philharmonic, Contemporary Is King for a Week 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Somewhere, the mournful sounds of the Mersey tunnel are piped in, seeming to emanate from a huge arrangement of industrial piping. Back in business at the Liverpool Biennial 2010-09-20T20:30:00Z I looked forward eagerly to the Kolokolo Bird's mournful cry in answer to the Elephant Child's perfectly innocent question about what the Crocodile has for dinner. How Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories became music to my ears 2013-01-04T09:00:06Z On Junghyun Georgia Lee’s gilt-framed set — simpler and more capacious than the one she designed for Theater Row — the show is more anguished, more mournful, more urgent than before, and sometimes that makes it heavy-handed. Review: ‘The Chinese Lady’ Casts a Long Look at Hate 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The hold that La La Land is currently exerting over audiences is at least partly to do with its function as a comfort blanket of yearning romanticism, inward-looking nostalgia and mournful retreat from the present. The 50 best films of 2016 in the US: No 2 La La Land 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The three women in the stirring and mournful “Villa,” a drama by the Chilean playwright and director Guillermo Calderón, face a similarly daunting task. Review: ‘Villa’ Dramatizes a Plot of Chilean Land With a Dark Past 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Wearing the black dress and black shawl of classic fado performers, she was imperiously mournful, declaiming each phrase as a freshly felt lament. Music Review: Caman? Sings Fado at BAM in Next Wave Festival - Review 2011-12-04T23:16:02Z But as Mr. Letts’s performance also makes clear, underneath George’s seeming mercilessness is a mournful sense of compassion. Theater Review: Tracy Letts in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ 2012-10-14T21:52:14Z In another video, a deliciously mournful tune by the Smiths accompanies an essay-like text that considers how television images helped mobilize the civil rights movement. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Gone were the whistling and the ukulele, and in their stead mournful strings and despair. Noah and the Whale: I never thought of myself as a singer' 2011-02-24T21:30:01Z Gray drizzle, the somewhat mournful sound of a choir, black S.U.V.s, grim security guys. Today, We March 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z He thanks his grandmother and sinks at the loss of his father with mournful rasp, deepened even further by gentle chin-to-sternum plucking and the cumulus vocals of Little Dragon’s Yukimi Nagano. Big Boi’s Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors Is Visionary Hip-Hop 2012-12-12T18:30:17Z When he related the story to Toback, he was mournful and furious. What Charlie Sheen can learn from Mike Tyson 2011-03-03T15:40:00Z That Hitchcock displayed a psycho-sexual obsession with beautiful blondes is hardly a revelation, but its creepily controlling nature may have come as a mournful disappointment to his fans. Rewind TV: Downton Abbey; Restless; Loving Miss Hatto; The Girl; David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Paul – review 2012-12-30T00:06:04Z If a drinking game required you to empty a shot glass every time Forte expelled a mournful sigh, by the end of the film you’d be drunker than Woody ever was. Nebraska: Alexander Payne’s America, Plains and Simple 2013-05-23T19:09:59Z Conductor Schwarz took the opening Introitus with slow deliberation, the mournful woodwinds carrying the theme over a sea of weeping strings, but this was to set up a burst of energy that began the Kyrie. Review: a full stage, full of beauty for SSO Mozart program 2011-01-21T18:50:05Z Love has to pull his narrators out of deeper holes this time, reflected in minor chords and mournful realizations. New Music from Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame 2011-08-08T22:27:29Z The ambient noise fades behind a mournful score as Joel mows down the overmatched guards, as if he’s playing on easy mode. ‘The Last of Us’ Finale: First-Person Shooter 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z The “Space Jam” bot continued to sound its mournful toll for three days, at which point a human, Colin Mitchell, the bot creator, stepped in. Welcome to the Space Jam, Again 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z No wonder it is such a satisfyingly moody, atmospherically disheveled sanctuary, thick with vegetation and mournful with pockets of disrepair. Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The result was a sort-of concerto, with an industrious first movement, a mournful slow one and a fleet finale, made to order for the splendid violinist Benjamin Bowman, who played beautifully. Two New York Orchestras Return With Acts of Renewal 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Eleanor, a mournful adolescent, forever an unsweetened 16, shows thoughtful restraint with her victims, seeing herself as some sort of angel of mercy. Movie Review: ‘Byzantium’ Draws on Caribbean Vampire Folklore 2013-06-27T21:44:42Z By the end of this loose, mournful soul song, Anohni finds a hopeful answer to that titular inquiry: She’s here to tell these stories, to draw attention to these causes, to sing this song. Taylor Swift’s Revised ‘Revenge,’ and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z “Constellations” tells an alternately comic and mournful tale in an experimental but easily intelligible manner. After ‘The Affair,’ Ruth Wilson Hits Broadway in ‘Constellations’ 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z “That might be one reason I’m drawn to these death-and-dying songs, these mournful sounds.” Alice Gerrard Didn’t Plan a Bluegrass Career. She Broke Its Glass Ceiling. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z And the presence of the estimable Donal Logue, playing an affable sheriff with a nasty secret, only made me more mournful for the cancellation of his excellent television show, “Terriers.” | 'Shark Night 3D': ?Shark Night 3D,? Directed by David R. Ellis - Review 2011-09-02T23:33:13Z There was a mournful elegy — James Taylor sang “In My Life” by the Beatles — to stars who died in 2009, from Jean Simmons to Brittany Murphy. The TV Watch: Supersizing the Show (Austerity Is So 2009) 2010-03-08T14:27:00Z The emotion of this piece, as in so many of Shorter’s tunes, is both stark and shrouded: Is it mournful? Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z She also wrote the mournful string arrangements that provide a score for much of the film, including a finale that pushes Ray-Ban’s current #ItTakesCourage campaign to the point of absurdity. The Playlist: Jay Z Sips Lemonade and Adele Divides and Conquers 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z After the mournful tempest of the opening, the two players skated over moments of brittle calm before ending the piece in a sensuous shimmer of optimism. Review: George Shangrow memorial added to Seattle chamber fest's Eastside opener 2010-08-05T20:34:00Z There’s also a song in Spanish: “La Memoria,” a mournful reproach to a lover who mistreated her, and a reminder of Reyez’s Latin heritage. Jessie Reyez Is Yelling and Loving at the Same Time 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z “I’ll be your shelter,” Wyclef Jean promises, sometimes in a sweet falsetto and sometimes with hoarse vehemence, over mournful, syncopated guitar chords. Cardi B’s Gleefully Relentless ‘Up,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z But the mournful “Sermon” felt at home among the symphonies, both complementing and in tension with them, particularly as they were played by the Philadelphians with such graceful, sweet-not-saccharine polish and élan. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Is New York’s Conductor Now 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z And her “Send in the Clowns” proves to be a moving sort of concession speech, a mournful valedictory to love. Review | Signature opens season with ‘A Little Night Music,’ one of Sondheim’s precious gems 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z The novel is both a longing ode to the West and a mournful indictment of it. A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Adept with Porter’s quick and clever lyrics, she also delivers a mournful rendition of “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” and a yearning, romantic “Wunderbar.” Theater Review: In ‘Love, Linda,’ Stevie Holland Imagines Mrs. Cole Porter 2013-12-18T15:38:23Z Julian Clary, last week, was a tad mournful about his young self, but this week Meera Syal positively revelled in reading out her entries, treating us to her original Midlands accent and 70s angst. Rewind radio: Today; Victoria Derbyshire; Ed Reardon's Week; My Teenage Diary ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:52Z Cesar Rosas, the band’s other guitarist and songwriter, and its raspier lead singer, also sees flames and farewells in the mournful “All My Bridges Burning,” written with the Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. Critics' Choice: CDs From Los Lobos, Seu Jorge and Almaz, and Dr. John 2010-08-01T22:33:00Z The opera’s Iphigénie, haunted and mournful 15 years later, is a nearly perfect fit for Ms. Graham. Music Review: In Dark Temple, Antiquity?s Sober Doings 2011-02-14T05:11:48Z After the service, the family departed for a private burial as a local New Orleans-style brass band outside played mournful renditions of the “St. Louis Blues” and “Just a Closer Walk With Thee.” Chuck Berry Is Hailed as a Rock Trailblazer and a St. Louis Hero at His Funeral 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z The track that Rasheed played, “Pastime Paradise,” opened with a mournful synth loop that replicated the sound of a string section. The Story of ‘Gangsta’s Paradise,’ Coolio’s Biggest Hit 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Seen today, “Far From Vietnam” comes across as a mournful, enraged chant. The Film‘Far From Vietnam’ Returns After Decades 2013-08-27T21:47:06Z That mournful song fitted easily with newer ones that emerged in a process she described as “patchworking” and “solving puzzles,” working on multiple fragmentary songs at once. Feist?s Solitary Road to New Album ?Metals? 2011-09-18T02:17:42Z In another, she warns her father of his impending doom, backed by a violin and a mournful harmonium. Review: ‘Songs of Lear,’ We Hear Cordelia Singing 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z She was known to a vast audience for her sharply satirical sketches and plays, Symbolist poems and deft Chekhovian short stories, both humorous and mournful. ‘Subtly Worded’ Brings Teffi to Non-Russian Readers 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z It’s more melancholy than mournful, and it lacks days-of-wrath religious terror or any equivalent stakes. Review: Kyle Abraham’s Out There ‘Requiem,’ With Nods to Mozart 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z A version from 2011, on view in “Forothermore,” an alternatingly beautiful and deeply mournful survey of Cave’s work at the Guggenheim, illustrates how the soundsuits evolved since, into nearly autonomous beings. A Nick Cave Survey With Plenty of Bells but No Whistles 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z In his roughly 350 works, mournful melodies intertwine with evocations of natural sounds like birds and thunder; driving rhythms and vivid use of percussion are also integral elements. Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Steeped in Australia’s Sounds, Dies at 85 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z At some point, I noticed that the word “chin” had suddenly begun erupting amid Paul McCartney’s gently mournful lyrics. Review: ‘Yesterday Tomorrow,’ a Meeting of Songs About Time 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z I had never heard anybody sing about love in a way that had all of the elements of the actual experience, which was exhilarating and mournful and celebratory. Sarah Paulson Has a Thing for Vulgar Performances and Good Cries 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z This mournful piece is one of the work’s highlights. Drone Music, Stretched and Sliced 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Sentiment inside the shantytown is galvanized around our mutual suffering, as Mr. Mac sings heart-tugging numbers like “Soup,” a mournful ode to that minimal meal, and the classic “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” Taylor Mac’s ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,’ 1930s-1950s 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The first clue is the music: a waft of mournful pop that echoes up the gray stone streets. How circus-loving Montreal has persisted as the big top of the world 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Letterman’s last Late Show was nostalgic but not maudlin, gracious but not mournful, valedictory but not a eulogy. David Letterman Leaves Us, Laughing 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z In the pensive Andante, he played the mournful melodic line with lyrical suppleness while eerily articulating the delicate rhythmic figure that runs through the music obsessively. Richard Goode Plays Bach and Schubert 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Though Ms. Wolfe never directly quotes this mournful song, she painstakingly depicts the story. Music Review: The Tale Those Strings Can Tell 2011-02-04T23:57:02Z If Mr. Palmer sees any political significance in this ritualized feuding he doesn’t say, though the mournful string music suggests that he’d like you to see the fights in tragic terms. | 'Knuckle': ?Knuckle,? Documentary About Fighting Irish Travelers - Review 2011-12-09T02:03:03Z Aurelius cautions his reader to resist becoming bitter or mournful, and instead to think of each grievance as an opportunity: “To bear this worthily is good fortune.” Doug Paisley’s Winter Melancholy on “Starter Home” 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Bald and bearded, solid and solemn, Mr. Grant is a natural performer whose mournful gravitas grounds the ghost of a plot. Review: ‘Five Star’ Casts a Cool Eye on Gang Culture 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Lerner’s mournful lyrics are likely to give New Yorkers a particularly frigid feeling this year, as this endless winter stretches out indefinitely. Review: ‘Paint Your Wagon,’ Starring Keith Carradine, Opens at Encores! 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Eisenstein's mournful, haunting shots of the Odessa waterfront after Vakulinchuk's death, which is the only section where the film engages a contemplative mode, lead us into the Odessa Steps sequence. How "Battleship Potemkin" reshaped Hollywood 2011-01-12T01:32:00Z Last week, on Bandcamp he released the searing and mournful “Baldwin,” a track from an upcoming 10-disc box set of new material dedicated to “those who want to eliminate hate, racism, sexism, greed and lies.” Jazz Is Built for Protests. Jon Batiste Is Taking It to the Streets. 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Penderecki’s woody bagatelle, in its first United States performance, began with mournful arco bass over a buzzing violin drone; roles quickly reversed, Ms. Mutter playing solemn lines atop Mr. Patkolo’s sonorous ground. Music Review: Old Hand and a New One Crossing Paths in Harmony 2011-04-05T20:56:47Z The ovation was tumultuous, even more so after Mr. Kissin, for an encore, played a mournful Armenian song. Review: In ‘With You, Armenia,’ Kissin and Others Honor the Slaughtered 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z My only criticism would be that the mournful sincerity of the final scene felt incongruous after the goofiness of the rest of the show. Exploring the silliest and darkest sides of marriage at Wolf Trap Opera 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z A mournful trumpet and elusive flute joined in, suggesting the bucolic, wistful side of Copland, though with flintier harmonies. Over Headphones and in a Truck, the Philharmonic Stays Alive 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z A large, mournful dog named Ricky had his own sign-language sheet on the door of the fridge. Koko the rhyming gorilla and the woman trying to get her pregnant 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Comic and celebratory, melodic and mournful, it’s an elegy for a place that’s not dead yet. Review: A Welsh Family Clings to Native Soil in ‘The Good Earth’ 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Maybe if I hadn’t been bombarded with the trope of the mournful mother again and again it would have made an emotional impact, but the repetition finally burned me out. When you’re pregnant, movies and TV constantly remind you of the worst-case scenario 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z After Kennedy’s assassination, the mournful ride on his funeral train to Washington inspired Ms. Stein’s first oral history — which she structured in parallel with the journey by train. Jean Stein, oral historian who chronicled the fate of Edie Sedgwick, dies at 83 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Still, Thursday night’s show offered only one implicitly mournful moment: “Sometimes It Snows in April,” a quiet duet between Melvoin and Coleman. Review | How to throw a Prince concert without Prince 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Instead of small rooms, the city’s squares and arcades seem to take over: large, empty spaces filled by Carmine’s mournful spirit. DVD: A Version of Gogol?s Short Story ?The Overcoat? on DVD 2012-01-13T18:02:55Z Gone are season one’s gloomy credits, which depicted figures, in the style of a Renaissance painting, being ripped from one another’s arms to the strains of a mournful violin backdrop. Reboots done right: How “The Affair” and “The Leftovers” played to their strengths and wiped out their biggest flaws 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Tied to the first movement by a darkly mournful line of brass, the Andante aches with a poignancy that is always gratifying, even in the most pedestrian of hands. Review: In Itzhak Perlman's hands, Mendelssohn steals the show 2011-01-31T22:00:07Z A superb musician in his own right, Branch displayed dazzling technique as he filled songs with sweet trills, mournful moans and torrential flurries, particularly as he took an extended stroll through the crowd. Blues remain vital at Chicago Blues fest 2011-06-12T12:41:00Z After the burial, his eye is caught by a row of "twenty or so children" watching the "mournful proceedings" through the railings of the schoolyard. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill 2012-02-10T22:55:08Z “What Rhymes With America” — the title is misleading: no politics here — sometimes grows a little too enamored of its characters’ mournful quirkiness. Theater Review: ‘What Rhymes With America’ at Linda Gross Theater 2012-12-13T03:00:12Z They all heeded certain formal strictures, incorporating coiled-spring melodies, mournful Jewish scales and shrewdly structured chaos. Music Review | John Zorn: Exploring the Topography of John Zorn?s Continent 2010-02-19T22:52:00Z In "Arenal," men and women perform energetic, entwining duos, trios and quartets to Mediterranean songs — in counterpoint to a soloist who weaves through them with more mournful, emphatic gestures. Dance review: Artful, brooding work from Spain's Compa?ia Nacionial de Danza 2010-04-23T19:40:00Z And in the Los Angeles Times last week, Jacob Silverman called it "mournful and a touch angry but also generous of heart and even, in rare moments, lightly comic". David Foster Wallace memoir gathers acclaim 2013-06-05T14:28:41Z The subtle tensions here — young/old, live/recorded, still/moving, separate/together, male/female — made “A-R-S,” mournful and ecstatic by turns, indelibly an opera, even without characters, plot or readily comprehensible text. Review: A Trio of Micro-Operas in the East Village 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Not a word is spoken: there is just Tariverdiev’s mournful piano theme. Russia's answer to James Bond: did he trigger Putin's rise to power? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The mood was solemn and the music mournful at the Missoni fashion show, which went on despite the uncertain fate of the family-run fashion house’s CEO. Milan designers fall back on the “classics” 2013-01-14T18:09:16Z Many in the audience may be tempted to join in this mournful chant. | ?Lost in the Stars?: Pursuing a Prodigal Son, Who?s Strayed to the City 2011-02-04T23:55:30Z They were art records, beautiful records, mournful records, sad records, joyous records. Unsung hero 2010-03-18T17:17:00Z Chaudry’s elegantly wrought city portrait casts a mournful backward glance at epochal moments in the history of Paris from the vantage of the 1989 bicentennial of the French Revolution. Debut Novels About Families Fractured by Abuse, Displacement or Death 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z And as the mysterious Jane Doe, Ms. Rohm achieves an ethereal, haunting quality, mournful and captivating. Review: ‘Ride the Cyclone,’ About Teenagers, and Angst, in Purgatory 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Roelf also indulges in some mournful ruminations on the inevitability of death that strike banal notes. Theater Review: Athol Fugard’s ‘Train Driver,’ From Signature Theater 2012-09-10T02:17:30Z In the background, ghostly and mournful beats gradually unwind. Tom Ewing 2011-03-24T22:30:00Z From the start, his tone is one of mournful candor with a trace of straight-faced wit. Review | Nico Walker is a convicted bank robber. ‘Cherry’ proves he’s also a must-read author. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Worked over in a mournful, reflective, nearly fugue-like largo in the first movement, the motif becomes hysterically repeated in the second movement, as if the composer were relentlessly interrogating himself. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z It’s road music in the early-1980s vein, with throbbing organ, mournful stripes of guitar laid atop, and optimistic, hurried drumming. New Music: Kathleen Edwards, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Cate Le Bon ? CDs 2012-01-16T22:48:58Z Her saxophone sound is insistent, mournful and devout, all at once; mostly, it’s inspiring. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z But, as his mournful strolling concludes, autumn leaves shoot over him in an exclamatory fountain – nature poking fun at his stubborn sadness. As You Like It – review 2012-05-22T09:51:51Z To non-Russian eyes, it may seem like a spaghetti western joined by Reds and Chekists, the cowboys of their day, tearing across Russia’s wild steppe backed by a mournful soundtrack. Eduard Volodarsky, Screenwriter Banned by Soviets, Dies at 71 2012-10-14T01:38:45Z Foley and Van Zandt both wrote soft and mournful songs predicated on the idea that sorrow is inevitable—that it infects us early and never leaves. Blaze Foley’s Inevitable Sorrow and Spiritual Success 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z In the haunting opening movement, the chorus intones a list of names from a century-old Pennsylvania Mining Accident index, accompanied by mournful snarls from the All-Stars. A MacArthur for the Composer Julia Wolfe 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Dr Johnson saw it as a town of "mournful memories" and "gloomy depopulation". The Beginning and the End of the World: St Andrews, Scandal and the Birth of Photography by Robert Crawford ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:04Z At times, the performance crackled with the verve of the album, as on the jubilant 2-step of “Lost & Found” or the mournful, decaying soul of “Your Drums, Your Love.” Music Review: AlunaGeorge Makes Its New York Debut 2013-09-06T21:09:50Z A similarly dark mood pervades the first movement, which sounds as if several cellos were playing a mournful chorale. Classical Recording: Michael Hersch: Sonata No. 1 & 2 2010-04-30T18:41:00Z The first piece, “Sea Wall,” features Tom Sturridge offering a mannered, mournful account of the death of a child. Review | Jake Gyllenhaal is a stage animal for sure. But he needs more feral turf in ‘Sea Wall/A Life.’ 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z The song’s title wasn’t announced during the set, but its mournful essence was clear enough, yielding a singular tension in an otherwise tonally consistent performance. Music Review: The Tomasz Stanko Quintet Performs at Birdland 2010-04-14T21:27:00Z The décor consisted of log and stone tables and chairs, meager mattresses and mournful skulls and hourglasses for contemplating the passage of time. Antiques: The Fall of Gnomes: Tasteful to Tacky 2013-05-30T20:04:26Z The essence of “Pipeline,” Dominique Morisseau’s lucid autopsy of a broken black family and the institutions that aren’t designed to help them, boils down to a mournful scene in a hospital waiting room. Review | Dominique Morisseau’s ‘Pipeline’ looks at a troubled young man, and who failed him 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z But while that movie takes full, mournful measure of the nightmare of life under jihadi terror, its vision is also stubbornly humane. The Year the Studios Get It Right 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z It was an unusually mournful hour even for this series. The poignant wisdom of "Men of a Certain Age" 2011-06-08T12:09:00Z Over a handful of mournful organ chords, Ocean imagines a one-sided conversation with a taxi driver. Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z His American gaze at Mexico is mournful — like that of a man watching his cousin die of cancer. ‘Bloodlines’ Tracks Bloodshed Across the Border 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Grief can be quiet and mournful; it can be loud and antagonistic. R.E.M.’s “Monster” and the legacy of an unsung melancholic masterpiece 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The sound effects include the mournful wail of a far-off train whistle. Music: Franz Schreker?s Opera ?Der Ferne Klang? at Bard 2010-07-25T01:32:00Z The metal structure keened its mournful note again. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z Many wrote raw, mournful poems after the Sept. 11 attacks, and pacifist poems protesting the war in Iraq. American Poets, Refusing to Go Gentle, Rage Against the Right 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z He turned that skill into writing and arranging compulsively memorable songs that the world was unable to stop humming — from the mournful "The Way We Were" to the jaunty theme from "The Sting." Marvin Hamlisch, who composed 'Chorus Line,' dies at 68 2012-08-07T23:28:03Z Many of the works in "Poetry of the Taliban" center on the movement's campaign to expel foreign forces from their territory, with angry battle anthems or mournful dirges devoted to civilian casualties. UK publisher to release Taliban poetry anthology 2012-05-05T19:46:04Z At the end of the evening, he was leaving the house when the sirens began their mournful warning. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Minor keys and mournful moods are the rule. Music Review: Avanti! Ensemble in Finnish Works at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-12-04T22:30:17Z A chorus of voices repeats the line, part meditative, part mournful resignation. FKA Twigs 'LP1' Review 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Harrowing woodwinds wend throughout the album, and the pairing of bassoon and brass lends it a mournful glow. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z |
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