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With Gods and Monsters, a fictionalized biography of the last days of Frankenstein director James Whale, and Kinsey, Condon aligns himself with the great pantheon of directors like John Ford, Douglas Sirk and Francis Ford Coppola who bring auteurist pizzazz to classical Hollywood filmmaking structures.
In an era, where pop filmmaking strokes are misappropriated incessantly to make up for a lack of depth in the subject material, Condon is not only using those techniques sparingly and effectively, but delving into classical Hollywood language and pulling out something that is totally unexpected.
This unclear sense of irony is only confounded all the more with The Lyre of Orpheus. Though intentionally opaque and periodically über-theatrical (especially in the opening eponymous track), Lyre is never quite too much to make you cringe or laugh. Indeed, part of what makes it so...
Bach Soc’s superb classical concerts never fail to please, and BSO Fall Concert 2004 should be no exception. At this you might see the next Yo-Yo Ma in his/her formative years. Featuring Alexander Brash ’06 as conductor; Toni Marie Marchioni, oboe; Francesca Anderegg...
Mozart’s Prelude to Don Giovanni, Britten’s Soirées Musicales, Stephenson’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ives’ The Unanswered Question, Haydn’s Finale from Symphony No. 89 in F Major and PDQ Bach’s Eine...