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...Englishman John Schlesinger, an Academy Award-winning veteran of such classic dramatic fare as Midnight Cowboy, Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Marathon Man. While I do admire his attempt to stretch, Schlesinger, so skillful at creating dramatic conflict, does not appear to be as comfortable with the lighter material, and interplay between the various supporting characters often appears a little forced. This is clearly Madonna and Everett's show, and the supporting characters are not given enough to do and seem to exist simply to transition gaps in the storyline. As Ben Cooper, Benjamin Bratt (formerly...
...Major, Op. 92, provided a dynamic and powerful contrast. The Prokofiev was quite accessible to the casual listener, incorporating folk melodies and stirring emotional themes. The peaceful, melancholic Brahms String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1, beautifully demonstrated the quartet's skill at intricate interplay and musical lyricism. The concert concluded with a crowd-pleasing arrangement of Aaron Copland's "Rodeo" for String Quartet, in the year of the 100th anniversary of his birth...
Take his music. That Monty Norman's classic tune can be straightforward enough to instantly stick in one's head yet sophisticated enough to instantly trigger one's imagination is a minor miracle, not to be overlooked. It calls for a precise interplay of uncomplicated but carefully wrought elements: the tensely chromatic rise and fall of the bass, the edgy twang of crafty appoggiaturas, wailing brass punctuation in all the right places. It's just so. What the music doesn't need is a techno beat underneath...
...Musically, Quasi take seemingly mundane pop influences (The Beatles, The Carpenters, The Monkees) and feed them through a blender of late '90s noise. Without a guitar on the majority of their songs, Quasi focus on the interplay between the roxichord (Coomes' organ-like instrument) and drums. What they lack in musical accompaniment, they make up for with anger and volume. During "Our Happiness is Guaranteed," Janet Weiss pounds out drumbeats that come close to knocking her off her own stoo, while Coomes climbs on top of his keyboard and takes a few moments to beat it senseless in a furious...
...change voice almost arbitrarily as Budnitz jumps from Sashie to Ilana. Aside from the content of each narration, Budnitz makes little effort to create a different stylistic or narrative voice for each one. She intrepidly attempts to address the conflict of old values and new, western values through the interplay between Ilana and Sashie. However, an analysis of dishtowels, tea leaves and hospitalization from two perspectives destroys the potential depth of this exchange. Budnitz tries to be too profound in her simplification, taking on too large a human theme within too small of a context...