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...perspective: deep inside. Their inventive synthesizer work makes music so stylized it becomes otherworldly. In the words of one admiring London critic, "They know how to use their computers." The Pet Shop Boys' tunes are inventive and danceable; It Couldn't Happen Here, on their new album Actually, was co-written with the formidable film composer Ennio Morricone. Their lyrics are jagged fragments of social observation and romantic speculation honed to a keen cutting edge. Two lines from Rent put it neatly: "I love you/ You pay my rent...
This season, which ended last week, was typically eclectic. Among the offerings were a musical setting of Mordecai Richler's brash comic novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Composer Salzman's Stauf, an anagrammatical updating of the Faust legend co-written by Michael Sahl. The highlights, though, were The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a moving minimalist meditation by British Composer Michael Nyman based on a case history in Neurologist Oliver Sacks' best seller, and Harry Partch's 1959 Revelation in the Courthouse Park, a quirky blending of Euripides and Elvis Presley, scored for an unorthodox...
...witty playwright and biographer of George S. Kaufman, Alexander Woollcott and Henry Fonda; of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease); in New York City. A stylish writer and raconteur, the Chicago-born Teichmann scored a solid hit on Broadway with his 1953 comedy, The Solid Gold Cadillac, co-written with Kaufman...
Indeed, Strobe Talbott, Time Magazine's Washington bureau chief, has co-written a work which probes little deeper than the magazine that employs him. But at least when Time articles grow wearisome, you can always turn to a bikini-clad beauty in the "People" section...
...DYLAN: KNOCKED OUT LOADED (Columbia). For one epic song, one of Dylan's greatest: Brownsville Girl, co-written with Sam Shepard...