Word: icing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that I was uncomfortable and not enjoying myself. The one employee had mysteriously disappeared after the phone rang, and there I was, all alone in the store with this weird man who informed the employee (when he returned) that he was my boyfriend and that I was buying him ice cream. He repeated it. The employee looked at me and then at the security guard. Meanwhile I was furiously showing my change into my wallet, fumbling because I was so agitated. "Man, you have to stop staring at the customers!" The guard played off the comment as if the employee...
...Texas fiddlers or Argentine tango musicians as Ma has done. Or either cellist initiating, as Ma has, an ambitious series of six hour-long films inspired by Bach's six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, involving collaborators as diverse as movie director Atom Egoyan, modern-dance choreographer Mark Morris, ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean and landscape architect Julie Moir Messervy. The films, to be shown on PBS starting in early April (following last month's release on CD of Ma's new recordings of the suites on Sony Classical), are only fitfully successful--stunts, one could argue. But their...
...artists' control (it turns out you need a lot of money and a lot of people to cooperate if you want to build a big public garden in Boston, even a Bach-based one). As for the Torvill and Dean piece (the sixth suite)--well, one either enjoys ice dancing or finds it kind of silly...
Whatever the merits of the six films that make up Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach, the two-CD sound-track album (Sony Classical), on which Ma plays the Bach cello suites without benefit of ice dancers, landscape artists or snappy one-liners from choreographer Mark Morris, is a major musical achievement. Ma's second take on the Bach suites is also a distinct improvement on the version he recorded at the age of 26 (which is still available on Sony). His playing has grown deeper and more forceful in recent years, and these warmly romantic performances faithfully reflect that...
...FATE OF ICE BABIES...