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...creative but confrontational approach to history, as well as his popular British television documentaries, illustrate Bennet??s charges against proud academics. Although his academic criticism is at times too simplistic to be taken seriously, Bennett ends up heightening Irwin’s role in developing the students’ personalities as the character deals with his own inner conflicts...
...play’s radical combination of filmed segments, an engaging score, and flawless stage-managing prove director Nicholas Hytener’s holistic vision for the play was aesthetically worthy of Bennet??s dialogue...
...last piece before the intermission, Robert Russell Bennet??s “Suite of Old American Dances,” was charming but too slow, making this “bright-eyed tune” somewhat lackluster...
...allow for an evolving sound or an evolving musical vision; perhaps it isn’t fair to expect a band to cling unflinchingly to the musical mores of their formative career. Indeed, these are important considerations, but change at what cost? In the estimation of many devoted fans, Bennet??s departure comes as a dear loss to Wilco’s nuanced sound and is a change for the worse...
Adding insult to injury, sound levels were badly regulated—Hammond organ, an essential Wilco ingredient, was almost inaudible; the bass guitar was muddled and overpowering, and, more generally, instrumental separation was poor. Bennet??s replacement, Leroy Bach, seemed overly conservative in his supplemental instrumentation and Tweedy lacked his characteristic attack on the guitar. All of these things notwithstanding, renderings of “A Shot in the Arm” and “She’s a Jar” were surprisingly good (though, again, organ layers were uncharacteristically weak) and new drummer Glen...
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