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David Adam Moore, the Baritone who played Vincent on opening night there are two casts has a strong and appealing voice, but his youthful vigor makes it hard for him to consistently display the vulnerability and pathos that stalk van Gogh's sun-flower optimism and starry-night piety, qualities that Moore finds in the Borinage mining scene but does not fully capitalize on.

Benjamin R. Barber: World Premiere of Bernard Rands' Opera Vincent at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music Benjamin R. Barber 2011

David Adam Moore, the Baritone who played Vincent on opening night there are two casts has a strong and appealing voice, but his youthful vigor makes it hard for him to consistently display the vulnerability and pathos that stalk van Gogh's sun-flower optimism and starry-night piety, qualities that Moore finds in the Borinage mining scene but does not fully capitalize on.

Benjamin R. Barber: World Premiere of Bernard Rands' Opera Vincent at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music Benjamin R. Barber 2011

It was, said Twain, “composed of equal parts of tobacco stems, chopped straw . . . fine shavings, oak leaves, dog-fennel, corn-shucks, sun-flower petals, outside leaves of the cabbage plant, and any refuse of any description whatever that costs nothing and will burn.”

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

It was, said Twain, “composed of equal parts of tobacco stems, chopped straw . . . fine shavings, oak leaves, dog-fennel, corn-shucks, sun-flower petals, outside leaves of the cabbage plant, and any refuse of any description whatever that costs nothing and will burn.”

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Dimitri Paulini and Gherardo Guarducci, of Saint Ambroeus restaurant, crafted a fine menu including a light, buttery risotto, pan seared fish and a sun-flower bread I will be going back for again and again.

Zandile Blay: The Luxe Supper: Paper, Penelope, Madonna and Casa Lever 2009

One of these was a sweet cake, made of lotus powder, scented with sun-flower.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

Her rubicund visage, gaudy-colored chintz dress, and yellow bandanna handkerchief, produced a sort of glaring sun-flower effect, not mitigated by the contrast afforded by the other members of the group.

Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage

And then directly, without any warnin 'or noise of any kind, all around began to look about the color of a yaller sun-flower, and I began to scent a powerful smell of roses and violets.

Strange Visitors Henry J. Horn

"Has not the powawing of the Long Beard brought back the spirit of Huttamoiden's cub from the happy hunting-grounds, and does not, therefore, the face of Peéna turn to him as the sun-flower to the sun?"

The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams

And the yellow sun-flower by the brook in autumn beauty stood,

The Book of Hallowe'en Ruth Edna Kelley