And of course, when you do have a big sorrow you will never get over it.
Years later, as a rabbi, I spend a lot of time examining big things: great joy, great sorrow, troubling questions about a person's life and worth, and the life of our planet.
Johannes Brahms's First Piano Concerto — much of which he composed, in an early form, in 1854, at the age of twenty-one, and completed four years later — is, to my ear, the piece in the standard classical repertory that, more than any other, boils over with the wild energies of youth, with its big dreams and big joys, big sorrows and big ideas, and abrupt eruptions of mixed emotion.
Johannes Brahms's First Piano Concerto much of which he composed, in an early form, in 1854, at the age of twenty-one, and completed four years later is, to my ear, the piece in the standard classical repertory that, more than any other, boils over with the wild energies of youth, with its big dreams and big joys, big sorrows and big ideas, and abrupt eruptions of mixed emotion.
Eventually it ended up here, adding excitement as a train raced on the big screen or sorrow as a heart broke.
Blue Eyes seems to be an alternately affectionate and wry portrayal of a solitary teenage music obsessive, "a permanent figure of jacked-up sorrow", big on New Order and writing poetry, convinced no one understands him: "They all had it in for me".
Her biggest hit was The Sorrows of Satan.
I think he was just marveling at the cruel mystery of it, the huge job ahead that now looks infinite, probably as big as Junior's sorrow.
My dreams had morphed into black nightmares full of pain and sorrow and big fists and a red face, beaded with sweat and screaming at me.
