Any Love: Silence, Theft, and Rumor in the Work of Luther Vandross
2000; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 23; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/cal.2000.0037
ISSN1080-6512
Autores Tópico(s)Theater, Performance, and Music History
Resumo1947: Langston Hughes writes the lyrics to Kurt Weill's classical opera Street Scene (based on Elmer Rice's play of the same name). The show's most captivating arioso is "Lonely House," in which a young male tenor cries out for a romantic partner to 'fill' the emptiness of his house. Though it has now become something of a jazz standard, "Lonely House" is a rare sentimental song about male romantic longing within the context of domestic space. Although critics of the era make mention of the unique collaborative effort between its Negro lyricist and German composer, few catch the complex portrayal of male sexuality so effortlessly tucked into Hughes' lyric.
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