Word: loudnesses
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Fitting itself into a single tidy category is one of the very few things that Stomp seems to have been unable to accomplish. The loud, gritty, percusion-oriented show has been touring the world for the past seven years, breaking box-office records and snapping up awards like flies--an Olivier in London, an Obie and a Drama Desk in New York. Now one of the show's two U.S. touring casts is back in Boston, gearing up for what looks like yet another sell...
...itself--a grungy, industrial conglomeration of trash bins, street signs, scaffolding and stoplights--itself becomes a part of the show. At the halfway point, the cast drums a loud, brilliant, exuberant number against these street artifacts while literally suspended from the scaffolding. And in the show's final, climactic piece, everything from the man-size plastic dustbins on the ground level to the tin trash cans suspended overhead becomes a part of the show, as trash-can lids, hubcaps and more exotic instruments are marched in from offstage...
...movement faltered, but the third and fourth were compelling. The Allegretto was wonderfully reminiscent of Smetana and, except for a few more tuning concerns, captivated one's attention through to the coda. There were two excellent things about the fourth: the grand turn of the cellos and the terrifyingly loud sound of the symphony's last half-minute. Here the brass imbalance seemed plausible if not prudent. Everything, in fact, seemed that way. But the effect was titanically impressive...
...Imagine you're eating at whatever house you're eating at, and the dean or University president comes over the loud speaker, blurting slogans into your ear," he said to the class in a Tuesday morning lecture...
...competing with his old employer. "I don't feel any need for vindication," says Morris about Warner. "That's not to say I don't want our company to be the industry leader, because I do." And in the music business, revenge is a dish best served loud...