Word: lyrical
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With Daryl Johnson on bass and Ronald Jones on drums, Lanois has the benefit of the kind of rich rhythm section that can be both goad and guide. When a musical phrase or lyric passage threatens to send Lanois off into deep space, Johnson and Jones can pull him back; when he's revising tradition, as on Indian Red, a kind of New Orleans gumbo classic, they help him explore musical byways that can bring him home again along a brand new route. If Highway 61 ran past Cape Canaveral, Lanois would be singing at the crossroads...
...Daumier do this? By fixing his pincer gaze on the theatrics of the law. In the drawing known variously as For the Defense and The Lyric Advocate, the lawyer's court robes puff out in baroque splendor -- one thinks, perhaps not irrelevantly, of Bernini's bust of Louis XIV -- on the hot air of his rhetoric, as he gestures at the man in the dock, a Jean Valjean whose simian face betrays not the slightest comprehension of what is being said on his behalf. Emphasized by the dark mass of the lawyer's sleeve, the short distance between...
This could be any one of a number of Gothic romances. It's actually all of them mixed together. Now in production at Boston's Lyric Stage, the late Charles Ludlam's The Mystery of Irma Vep: a Penny Dreadful is a sendup of every Gothic novel, 30s horror film, and classic romance to have ever sent thrills and chills down your spine...
Whether Irma Vep played better under Ludlam's direction is difficult for this reviewer to say (who has only seen the Lyric Stage production). But given the stellar reputation of the original production, it must have...
...parade, where the Lesbian & Gay Bands of America played and Girl Scouts passed out American flags and AIDS ribbons. A Clinton spotting could cue an impromptu chant: "Chel-sea! Chel-sea!" at the hot-ticket MTV Ball. Though the rockers booed Tipper Gore for her lyric-sanitation campaign, they gave a hand to Clinton's rowdy half-brother Roger. And so did the music industry. Atlantic Records snagged him to preserve forever his rendition of Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come. Let's sing along: "Then I go to my brother,/ And I say, brother, help me please...