Dirty Three, from Australia — another return engagement — worked up waves of furious sorrow between guitar, drums and violin, with the violinist Warren Ellis turning his back to the audience and sawing away.
When George discovers what has happened, instead of running off with Lennie, as before, he shoots his beloved friend, drawing veils of sorrow between the love he once knew and the grief he will never get over.
He had given up his home and his religion for the notion of a secular nation, a nation in which, as Rabindranath Tagore remarked, the loosening bonds of community and faith would render the novel relevant, for while people linked by faith tended to express themselves in infinite time, we would now be dependent on subjective time, the small interactions, the joys and sorrows between people.
There is a common grief between us…a sorrow written by deaths that involved apathy, scorn, deprecation, despondence, agony.
Over the past year, the Graffagnino family has oscillated between sorrow and rage.
But with context -- found best in memory -- the mood seemed awkward, as though teetering between sorrow and relief.
Soon the mother was making frantic telephone calls, searching for a flashlight to beam into the brush out back, bouncing between sorrow and joy.
That same month also brought A Lot of Sorrow, a collaboration between Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson and the National that saw the band perform the track Sorrow, from their 2010 album High Violet, over 100 times at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Governor Hickenlooper bought 180 copies of Mr. Rateliff's 2010 album "In Memory of Loss," a set of finely harmonized songs that move between sorrow and solace, as thank-you gifts for his campaign team.
Recurrent Sculthorpe fingerprints reinforce its identity: sliding string harmonics to suggest flocks of birds, its skilful emotional path between sorrow and consolation, drumming patterns inherited from Asia, echoes of aboriginal melody, and an unusual chord he used so often that his students nicknamed it "the Woollahra chord", after the suburb of Sydney where he lived.
Today, the relationship between sorrow and its premier anodyne remains the same, apparently; the anguished warrior in Menelaus' palace and the addict in a rat-filled basement are likely to make the same choice as they sink into what Charlie Smith calls the "despair / nothing but a drug could put to rest".
