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...orientation chord followed by one bar of a cappella opens "Warm Love." You'd expect a children's song, each syllable enunciated in falsetto with proper childish awe. The band only enters between lines, to keep the time, with nuanced emphasis from the bass drum and guitar; two flutes linger through each line as backing vocals. Jackie DeShannon appears for the first chorus, and the song becomes a duet. More idealism, but a far cry from the bliss of "Starting a New Life"--because there's a distance involved, a musing quality absent from Morrison's music for years. Flutes...
...pilot's eyes have changed; the world he sailed, all childish bravura, has grown more dark. Shall we pretend that his darkened seas are a harmless phantasy?...Alas, my friend, he's turned the Argo's prow to the void. We'll watch and wait, follow him into the darkness and through...
...family moved to Pasadena from Michigan (his father had died) when Herb was a young teenager. Frank Clement, who became his best schoolboy friend, remembers the newcomer as "a free and loose kid, an absolute nut . . . with the guts of a burglar." Of Germanic origins, Kalmbach was a fleeting, childish admirer of Hitler before World War II broke out, writing some stories about the Reich in the school paper. Remarkably, he was one of four finalists in a design competition for an airplane de-icer that the U.S. needed, even though, recalls Clement, he was only 13 or 14 when...
...picked me up from the floor, kissed me, and gave me a big piece of chocolate." For the great majority, however, the Japanese proverb has applied all too well: "The child prodigy at ten has talent at 15 and is mediocre at 20." Given parental idiosyncrasies, the denial of childish games, the pressures of concert life, it is a won der any of them survive at all. Yet they do. Beethoven, Mozart and Mendelssohn made it and, since Rubinstein's emergence, so have Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, Conductor Lorin Maazel and Pianist Lorin Hollander, among others. Three of the latest...
Breakfast of Champions is loaded with pictures too, all by my creator. Unfortunately Vonnegut can't blame his publishers for these childish sketches, which I assume were included to pad the novel out. In many ways, these drawings, along with the over-simplified prose indigenous to the Vonnegut novels I've lived in, remind me of The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupery. This is a heavy classic, the kind of children's book where adults can find "deep awareness." But if The Little Prince has any content, Breakfast of Champions has none. My creator's general idea...