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...unfettered expression, no one can beat these guys. In every guitar solo, chord change, lap steel fill, drum break, bass riff or vocal line, you’ll find something captivating, some kind of enchanting musical moment...
...excellence reaches beyond the lead performances. Michael B. Hoagland ’07 convincingly expands his range to include perverse bloodlust as Orestes, though Carla M. Borras ’05 re-deploys her penchant for the shrill as his sister Elektra. In fact, Borras strikes an incredibly emotional chord in addressing, in her Yorick-style, the head of her slain stepfather; however, despite her wit elsewhere, Borras really could ratchet down the decibel level and spread her laudable energy a little more thinly...
Somewhere between the encore and the final chord the crowd held their breath. The numbing and endlessly emotionalmusic slowed down as the ambient noise surged forward. From the back of the hall somebody shouted, “France sucks.” The crowd booed. Gonzalez looked...
Belying the band’s Harvard roots, as an album A + P feels like an application supplement. Wilkis and Kennedy are clearly eager to show their range, from silly to bleak, up-tempo to slow jam, distortion-heavy to crystal clear. They can do three-chord blues (“The Optimist”). They can play with time signatures (“little gigi”). They can be quasi-political (“America”). The rookie nature of the album is further evinced by its acoustics; lamentably, you can often hear just how small their...
...theater review that does not address at all the production of a show, except to psychoanalyze it, is no review at all (“Playful ‘Princess’ Strikes Misogynistic Chord,” Arts, Apr. 11). As a member of the arts community, I’m completely exasperated by the repeated lack of substance in Crimson theater reviews. Today’s review by David F. Hill of Princess Ida is no exception to what I have generally found to be a cadre of uninformed and uninterested reviewers. While at the performance that Hill...