Word: musical
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Their Y2K Pops, which stands for The Year 2000 Presumed Obsolete Performing Symphony, will showcase computers at the Hynes Convention Center that play classical, popular and science fiction theme music with synchronized graphics...
Gonsalves is in charge of finding the music and choreographing the performance. Since college, Gonsalves has dabbled in songwriting. The selected accompaniment will include Pink Floyd's "Time," Wilson Pickett's "In the Midnight Hour," Prince's "1999," and a Gonsalves original, "Time Masters...
...solid if a bit too modern) from itinerant seaman to rising machine politician is not adequately explained--nor is the matter of why an ambitious candidate in 1890s Chicago would find it advantageous to claim two mixed-race kids as his own. Most crucial, LaChiusa's multihued, melodically challenging music is more effective in evoking folkloric tradition than in helping us scale the cathartic heights this operatic show is aiming for. Amplified guitars, anyone...
...choice of music, it's as safe as a Home Improvement rerun, especially by comparison with Walt Disney's daring decision to include Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in Fantasia just 27 years after its cataclysmic Paris premiere triggered a near riot. Couldn't the makers of this ultracautious sequel have found anything more adventurous to animate than Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (yawn) or Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto, a pleasant student piece written in 1957 for the composer's teenage...
...well be that the corporate conservatism of Fantasia 2000 accurately reflects postmodern American taste, and certainly some of the kids who see it will be hearing classical music for the first time. But it's hard to imagine their falling in love with Beethoven as a result...