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...wants everyone in the theater to get it, get it? This is clear from the show's brief overture, with oompah tubas and tiptoeing xylophones practically poking the audience in the ribs to announce what follows will be musical comedy stopping just short of a Spike Jones all-out aural assault...
...actors, was henceforth designed not to seduce the audience, to play to the old expectations of charm and propriety, but to confront, challenge, titillate, outrage it. I think only jazz musicians had tried that before. Secure in their improv skills, they dared to investigate the farthest reaches of aural experimentation. And if the ringsiders didn't get it ? if a Charlie Parker was literally playing only to the band, and sometimes even they couldn't follow him ? too bad. If Miles Davis did a whole set with his back to the customers, well, were they there to see his face...
...That leaves Kiss Me Deadly, a film not quite meriting its latter cult eminence. The movie so stresses its characters stereotypes (the comic Italians and wasted dames) and facile aural editorializing (braying trombones, in case you didn't catch the blatant ironies in the dialogue) that the exaggeration almost becomes a style, as it surely does in Spillane's writing. This was 1955, when director Robert Aldrich's consistent coarseness was brave and bracing in Hollywood, rather than routine...
...best an error in logic that could only be made by a person who doesn't love and live with them both: Elitist and wrong, or ignorant and wrong, depending on your point of view. Musical playlists, like film soundtracks, are about using songs to create an aural atmosphere, a soundtrack for life. Listeners want to be DJs, and music moves fluidly between the public and the private. Reading, by contrast, is always private...
...editor. Floating onstage in a rustic muslin skirt, Orlosky launched into a rapturous sequence of leaps and turns against a backdrop the color of the dawning sun. Antja Davelcot’s plaintive country-western ballad “Ravenland” played in the background, providing a perfect aural compliment to Orlosky’s passionate performance. Things took a turn for the political in “My Angel Rocks Back and Forth,”an ensemble piece choreographed by Dominique M. Elie ’06 and Todorova, that played like a populist parable. A cadre...