Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, directors have used many different ideas of how to package a rock concert into a movie. Woodstock, for example, was a documentary. Other films have had some small real-life subplots--Bring On The Night had Sting's expectation of his baby hanging over it. And the number of unadulterated concert videos has skyrocketed...
Sign "O" the Times could have been left alone as one of these concert videos. But from the very beginning, it is clear that Sign is no ordinary concert reel. On a mock-up of his concert set, Prince and some of his band members act out the first of many vignettes designed to augment the concert action. Then the music begins...
...something feels different--the Prince on stage is not the Prince of the Purple Rain years. Peach-colored light fills the stage, and Prince begins to jam with very heavy Hendrix-style guitar riffs. By the time Sheila E. comes out on stage with the rest of the concert band, the audience is ready to break with the past...
...movie is more than just 85 minutes' worth of concert footage from Rotterdam. Indeed, when Prince finishes up with "The Cross," you know that you have experienced something special...
Performing on a mix of originals and reproductions, Norrington's 80-player ensemble is made up of London free-lancers, many of whom also play in similar bands like the Academy of Ancient Music and the English Concert. In rehearsal, he leads his players with forceful gestures, cries of encouragement and vivid, running pictorial images that mirror the music's story. "It was only a passing shower," he tells the strings in the Fantastique's adagio. "Now you might live again . . . supposing she is with somebody else . . . you're exhausted . . . what Berlioz says about this part is that the drums...