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Boldly appropriating both the format of Citizen Kane (inquiring reporter seeks the secrets of a pop star) and the legends of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Brian Eno and Roxy Music, Haynes fashions a fresco of seductive grotesques--notably the Iggy-esque Curt Wild, whom Ewan McGregor inhabits as a writhing punk- sprite. The Bowie-ish star, Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), is consumed by success, whereas the real Bowie always looked in control of his eminence. But, hey, you go to a musical for the numbers, which are brilliantly conceived and played. Does the milieu seem starched, grandiose, fake...
Hamlet closed just two weekends past, but the Hyperion players will be staging their traditional al fresco performance in the Yard during the spring ARTS FIRST Weekend. Stay tuned...
From Opening Exercises, the first-year classheads en masse to the Radcliffe Quad for agood old-fashioned picnic--Harvard Dining Servicesal fresco, basically. Students are supposedto sit with their dormmates, but during the longmarch to the Quad, they tend to get separatedsomewhere between Johnston gate and the SheratonCommander Hotel. These kinds of things have a wayof happening on the way to the Quad...
...playing doesn't get in the way of theopera's highlight, the quartet with chorus, "Bevoal tuo fresco sorriso." Here is Puccini at hismost clever, weaving together melodic strands anddance rhythms to create a sense of luxuriantebullience. The quartet is such a climax that italmost undercuts the conclusion of the opera whichfollows a few minutes later...
...living artist Manet and his peers respected very much, and who exercised a large subliminal influence on modernism though he would never have claimed to be "moderne" himself, was Puvis de Chavannes. Traces of Puvis's flat, fresco-like narratives kept turning up in Degas; long afterward, Picasso would base the scrawny, mannered figures of his Blue Period on Puvis, and there even seems to be a foretaste of Guernica in the head of the cow, lowing in pain at the sky, in Puvis's War, 1867, included in this show...