Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convincing acting. The music of Faust is readily available on CD; we go to a performance to see the dimensions of meaning which are lost in a libretto. Unfortunately, with the exception of Doss, the singers in this Faust might as well be in a recording or a concert performance. Acting is reduced to mannerism, often-as with Marguerite's mincing
...both hands and canceled projects numbering at least twice as many. One can only imagine what might have come of a recording of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto with Kleiber and the late Arturo Michelangeli, had it not been aborted at the first rehearsal. Granted, bootleg recordings of his rare concert appearances have kept more than one Italian label busy, but his extreme reluctance to record has inevitably elicited comparisons with Sergiu Celibidache, well-known for his remark that listening to recordings is much like fornicating with a picture of Brigitte Bardot...
This past weekend, organizers of the Mass-Can concert series led their annual rally for the legalization of marijuana. Accompanied by a few area grunge bands and the pathetic Howard Stern-airing WBCN, self-styled libertarians from around the state descended on the Boston area to tout their god-given right to smoke pot. Pecans to sex, drugs and rock and roll opened the rally as various potheads launched diatribes against the paternalistic state...
...Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Birthplace is trying to burnish Nixon's rep as one hep cat. Saturday marks the first ever "Nixonpalooza," a concert featuring--exclusively--the talents of Roger Clinton. The event kicks off the library's "Rockin' the White House" exhibition, which also offers RNTV...
...concert last month in New York City, D'Angelo was ushered on stage by his band playing the theme from Shaft. And on his new album he delivers a mellow, unpretentious version of Smokey Robinson's classic Cruisin'. D'Angelo, 21, has a pleasant, floating falsetto, and he shows his vocal skills off well on Cruisin' as well as on the romantic, melodic Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine. He could, however, work a bit more on his lyrics, which lack the lubricated finesse evident in the rest of his songcraft. On Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine...