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...this talent: it seemed so, potentially, right. Playwright John Guare: "The House of Blue Leaves," "Six Degrees of Separation" and the 1981 Lancaster movie "Atlantic City." Composer Marvin Hamlisch: "The Way We Were," "A Chorus Line," "They're Playing Our Song," "The Goodbye Girl" - all pulsing odes to Manhattan. Director Nicholas Hytner and designer Bob Crowley have confected some of the most enchanted theatrical evenings of the last two decades. Still I wondered: why a musical? Broadway songs are for what you can't say, for what's in your heart. Sidney, J.J. - what heart? And their success, which...
Messiaen, who began collecting birdsong when he was 15, dedicated the music to “the blackbirds, thrushes, nightingales, orioles, robins, warblers, and all the birds of our forests.” The birds awake in stages, beginning with Midnight, through the Dawn Chorus and ending at Noon. The music begins with the lone nightingale represented by a succession of octaves on the solo piano. A duet of nightingales soon follows. The orchestra does not play a large role in the piece, and when it does enter the forest of birds it serves as an indicator of the timbre...
...title of this memorable performance was “20th Century Psalm Settings for Chorus.” Within that program Elkies was nestled among composers as diverse as Charles Ives and Ralph Vaughan Williams, in a program that presented a cross-section of great composers of the 20th century. Elkies was very much deserving of the company...
...Inside” showcases the band’s juxtaposition of pulsing and brooding heaviness with haunting and hummable melody. Initially the guitars thud as McCombs sings in a low eerie tone, then a flickering and sweetly sad bridge ushers in a memorable chorus. Crooning “Everything is right here/ Color me unsold/ Everything is right here inside,” McCombs forges his own sound, though some listeners might find his softer timbre akin to Alice in Chains’s Layne Staley...
...opera now opens with the chorus girls behind the police perimeters: they are free-trade protesters in Quebec, though their bright, expensive-looking costumes seem out of sync with their political message. The entire scene, including the cramped arm-waving protests of the chorus girls, feels artificial, with the haphazardness reading not as purposeful disruption but awkward staging...