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...Power has almost a completely different lineup from the time they cut their masterwork, 1999’s A Dream in Sound, and at this point it seems like a name-change wouldn’t be too much...
...tended to by a garrulous nurse named Alma (Bibi Andersson). Alma quickly develops a monologue with her mute patient and slowly the two women seem to fuse into a single, indistinguishable entity. But a plot summary hardly does justice to Persona, director Ingmar Bergman’s masterwork and one of the most important films of 1960s cinema. Bergman explores the nature of communication, while tangling with threads of psychological reverie and sapphic yearning to weave an uncommon, unforgettable tapestry. Tickets $6. 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive...
...wish came true at the Adelaide Town Hall on Wednesday night with the world premiere of Peter Sculthorpe's Requiem for orchestra, chorus and didjeridu. For nearly 60 years, this Tasmanian-born composer's music has resonated with the sacred quality of nature. The Requiem is his masterwork. Based on an old Aboriginal lullaby, Sculthorpe's soaring choral work is punctuated by weeping cellos and grounded by the majestic hum of soloist William Barton's didjeridu, suggesting the long horizon of the Outback...
...songs like “Omission.” Frusciante is careful to maintain his outsider/auteur credentials with three eerie, spine-tingling synth tracks, but the rest of the album is given over to meatier stuff. The opening track, “Carvel,” is a miniature masterwork, emerging from a sheen of synths to grab you by the ear with a hook that keeps metamorphosing into something new and toothier...
DIED. M.M. KAYE, 95, author whose 1978 masterwork, The Far Pavilions, was sometimes likened to Gone With the Wind; in Lavenham, England. Born Mary Margaret Kaye to British parents in pre-independence India, she dabbled in painting (and amateur theater, left) but earned worldwide fame as a novelist. Her richly detailed story of a British orphan who is raised as a Hindu and falls for an Indian princess became a best seller and, in 1984, an HBO mini-series...