He became a leading interpreter of the mainstream repertoire – in particular the symphonies of Mahler and Shostakovich, and the concertos of Brahms – but also of his country's music, which he conducted with a poignancy, briskness, power and beauty that borders on the unbearable.
In this entrancing bittersweet mix of comedy and poignancy, Axel shifts from past to present and between voiceover narrative and dialogue with considerable skill.
Which, in a way, is odd, because the film cuts at the heart of modern America, of which the media is so much a reflection, stripping away the pretence of well-being layer by layer, all the way through black comedy to poignancy.
However, this year the holiday weekend has a special poignancy, because the number of people who can remember what happened 70 years ago is shrinking fast.
But what makes her special is the way she can shift so smoothly to gut-wrenching poignancy.
There is poignancy, too, when Lambert sings Who Wants to Live Forever under lighting that makes him look like a ghost and in the touchingly warm reception given to May's achingly sincere Love of My Life, for Mercury.
These images lose none of their poignancy or power in this familiarity.
Their very unfittingness, their refusal to offer up lessons or poignancy, can make them all the more painful to accommodate.More accurately a novella, this short work has an unhurried, inviting pace.
From the building's point of view, it's about branding, and something that is beyond the simple walls".It seems optimistic to assert that these paintings will become part of the branding of a skyscraper whose very existence is loaded with such poignancy.
Rather, it is a diligent account of a love turned sour, in which many of those who have followed the conflict over the years may find echoes of their own painful shifts of allegiance.The poignancy of the Guardian's affair with Israel stems from the Zionism of C.P. Scott, the great editor who ran the paper for nearly 60 years from 1872.
Mr Seth offers emotional sensitivity of the rarest order and a poignancy that invites an almost painful empathy.
