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...SPIRIT OF SONG. Kuumba, Harvard’s largest multicultural organization, returns to Sanders once again for its 33rd annual spring concert named for former Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. A mix of Stevie Wonder, contemporary gospel and African folk songs will supplement five original, never-before-performed pieces all written by Harvard-affiliated composers: four alumni, Derrick Ashong ’97, Theodore Maynard ’97, Sheldon Reid ’97, and Shu Nyatta ’02, and one Harvard parent, Celeste Wortes. Also, a Native American piece will be sung by Sisters...
...entry in the mockumentary subgenre, will be tempted to make comparisons to Guest’s earlier work, This Is Spinal Tap. While Tap focuses on the disaster-prone tour of a brainless metal band, Wind centers around a disaster-prone tribute concert in memory of a late, legendary folk music producer. The premise is just the sort of odd episode that Guest has mined so skillfully in the past, but this time around he maintains little of the comic consistency that he has previously captured, settling instead for ham-handed punch-lines and tonally confused subplots. Guest?...
...forms of mid-century pop music, the one that has resisted revival most devoutly is folk. Easy to see why: the music was both cheery and pompous, cleaner than Harriet Nelson's kitchen and nearly as white as the 1963 Masters tournament. In many middle-aged minds, the old folkies linger as a vague adolescent embarrassment--the musical equivalent of sophomore zits...
...directed, are about people whose dream of achieving an obscure goal (putting on a small-town musical, winning a dog show) far outstrips their sense or competence. In A Mighty Wind, he and co-writer Eugene Levy offer a new blueprint for poignant idiocy: the reunion of three folk groups 40 years after their 15 seconds of fame...
This could be an essay in contempt--the movie's title suggests a corrective fart aimed at the ghost of folk pop--but what's the fun in that? These gifted improv-ers of course locate the ludicrous. (Lynch does a roguish parody of everything that is creepy and false about show-biz poise.) But Guest also trusts any actor's tendency to fall in love with his character--and find elaborate rationales for goofy behavior. "There had been abuse in my family," Higgins solemnly recalls. "But it was mostly musical...