Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Increasingly, orchestra lovers stay home listening to the perfections of their audio systems--without hearing coughs, Dick Tracy watches, the bungled notes. Says Mark Lamos: "The home-entertainment experience is replacing the live-music experience in a concert hall. In opera you are operating on many more levels than pure sound. You need to be there. It is like a contact sport...
Guthrie makes a Thanksgiving pilgrimage to Boston each year to give a concert. Last year he played Sanders Theater, this year he visited the Berklee Performance Center. Thanksgiving is, of course, Guthrie's holiday, for it's the day upon which the events of Alice's Restaurant take place. While Christmas reaps the benefit of It's A Wonderful Life, and everybody reads Ulysses on Bloomsday, Thanksgiving is a holiday in need of some tradition that the culture industry can market. Why not Arlo Guthrie? The war in Vietnam may well be long past, but we're all getting older...
Ironically, experiencing Red House Painters in concert brings forth a similar, lurking cynicism; we find ourselves displaced from our idyllic, bedroom shanties and suddenly somewhat ashamed that we had ever allowed ourselves to be seduced by Kozelek's silver tongue. What was once treasured, inebriating music became imbamboozlably sobering and trite, simply by the fact that the room wasn't dark enough to hide the nearest person from collapsing the walls of our heretofore self-fulfilling fantasy. This was the bitterness part: growing...
...these singers cannot even duplicate their vocal stylings outside of a recording studio. For example, I once witnessed the pitiful spectacle of the trio Soul for Real failing miserably in their attempt to duplicate the lush harmonies of their hit single "Every Little Thing I Do" live in concert. The sounds of many current R&B groups may be similar to the unstable man-made elements--they can only exist through the intense efforts by producers with access to state of the art equipment, but cannot be created organically...
...this way: I've never felt anything like that at an a cappella concert...