Obsolete at the start of World War Two, the Curtiss SOC Seagull series of biplanes would outlast its replacements and fight on until V-J Day During World War Two, the saga of the United States Navy's floatplane fleet reached its apogee. With the...

PASATIERI: The Seagull Shoremount, Gough, Behan; Ayers, Worth, Alvarez de Toledo; Manhattan School of Music Opera Orchestra, chorus, Gilbert. Texts. Troy 579-580 Thomas Pasatieri has written seventeen operas in a frankly emotional, lyrical vernacular, rich in passion and melody, though prominent figures...

A few years ago, Joni Mitchell had rejected her musical muse, refusing to write or even play music as she devoted her life to painting, watching old movies on TV and reconnecting to the daughter she had given up for adoption in 1965.Now, at age...

Most female singer-guitarists in folk and pop genres … are primarily interpreters of songs others—usually men—write. The Canadian Joni Mitchell, often grouped with them, is exceptional however not so much because she is her own composer and lyricist, but because of the persistence with which she has, at her most characteristic, pursued through five record albums the sexual theme she treats with sophistication surprising in a mass artist. Love songs are nothing new, but the love-hate son...

["Songs to a Seagull"] is one of the few [albums] I can think of (the others that spring to mind are "Sgt. Pepper" and the [album by the] Mothers of Invention) which successfully hangs together as a complete whole…. Because Joni Mitchell was originally a painter … the things that stick in the mind from her songs are all visual. The king she lost, painting the pastel walls of her home brown thinking of ladies in gingham while she is a girl dressed in leather…....