"Desolation Row" presents a kind of carnival (the critic Christopher Ricks calls it a "masque") of fragments, shards of a civilization that has gone to pieces, in a modernist tradition that runs from Eliot's Waste Land to Ginsberg's "Howl".
People no longer wish to be present at a carnival of corporate excess: you need only visit a top Premiership football match, with its prohibitively expensive ticket prices and rhetoric of greed, to understand how starkly sport is becoming separated from its founding ethos.
NEW YORK THEATRE BALLET The chamber company presents a doubleheader of ballets for children: "Carnival of the Animals" (with music by Saint-Saëns) and Stravinsky's magical "The Firebird".
HAMILTON Grounds for Sculpture Opera New Jersey will present a musical theater performance including selections from "West Side Story," "Carnival, Follies," "Street Scene," "Aladdin," "Beauty and the Beast" and more.
Tonight, Arizona State University is presenting Emerge: The Carnival Of The Future, a multi-disciplinary creative conference (think of it as a lowkey, one-night-only SXSW), featuring performances, interactive displays, and exciting new media installations.
In the middle of this midwinter musical carnival, the Collegiate Chorale, a venerable New York institution now under the direction of Robert Bass, presented an all-Puccini program at Carnegie Hall.
Trying to describe a show that somehow presents carnival stunts and magic tricks in a way that is funny and menacing at the same time, critics often fall back on the description of the principals which Penn himself offers at the beginning of the evening — "a couple of eccentric guys who have learned to do a few cool things".
Peter Jackson The homegrown defender became the first Bradford captain to lift a trophy for 56 years before kick-off The week before, we had won at Bolton Wanderers to clinch the championship and there was a carnival atmosphere – they presented the trophy to me on the pitch and we waved placards thanking the fans.
In our present-day society of insurance nightmares and legal liabilities, none of the schools in our area use a carnival as a source of money-raising.
The informality of the present-day style of dress, shown above, has replaced fashion designers' dictates and the Easter Parade is more a carnival than a formal ritual.
