A child in the shadows

She also recorded with Vineyard Music UK during that time. The vulgarity of scatological popular theater was a counterpoint to the refined culture imposed from above. It was not until I saw the Mark Steel Lecture on BBC Four Television that featured the life and work of Charles Chaplin that I came to understand his films in the context of the period in which they are set. The second waltz is so utterly awesome that the otherwise choleric audience barely breathes, and the spell-breaking applause at the end seems a sacrilege.