Word: concert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite its high quality, the Summer School's New Opera Company doesn't really fill the need--its version of The Marriage of Figaro is a concert one, with no recitatives, few choruses, and singers standing up in tails. Much of the comedy inevitably gets lost. Beaumarchais's original version, first produced just five years before the French Revolution, was regarded as dangerously subversive because it concerned a valet's just victory over his adultery-minded master...
...since most of this Figaro's singers are fine--particularly Judith Hubbell as Susanna and David Arnold as Figaro--the opera seems more complete than it might, even with the drama truncated. A concert version is certainly better than nothing: like the post-Watergate era, Mozart's music balances a multitude of sins...
...music season isn't in full swing yet, but there should be at least one throughly enjoyable concert Friday evening, when Kirkland's brand new Boesendorfer piano can be heard in its solo recital debut. Seth Carlin will play program featuring Beethoven's oft-featured Waldstein sonata and one of Schoenberg's first serial works, the Five Pieces, Op. 23. Maryse Carlin (playing a Steinway) will join Seth in a performance of the Mozart Sonata for Two Pianos. Also, Brahms: Eight Pieces...
...fact that they were seven years late, quickly bought up all the Velvets previously released albums, added a few scratches to the grooves to increase the disc's apparent use, and swore themselves to have been some of the "originals". Personally, I have never seen Lou Reed in concert but a reliable source tells me his performance is one not to be missed; the source being, of course, Rock and Roll Animal, a highly polished effort of tunes (both from the days of the Velvets to the present) recorded at New York's Academy of Music. Taking into account...
...follow-up to Low Spark, Shootout at the Fantasy Factory, was identical to its predecessor right up to the album design. The one thing missing was imagination--almost every critic had his fun with the title of one cut, "Sometimes I Feel So Uninspired." Even worse, that concert tour was marked by the overshadowing of Stevie Winwood on organ by a part of the Muscle Shoals rhythm section and the omnipresent Rebop on bongos, congas, and other assorted skins. With Capaldi prancing about as the meaningless figurehead, one actually wondered if the Traffic known to millions had really existed...