Word: musics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anxious to replace the Korean War armistice with a solid peace treaty that would get U.S. troops out of South Korea, the government is now renewing efforts for a dialogue with Washington. Accordingly, earlier anti-American hostility has faded considerably. The radio is alive, improbably, with the music of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. And none of the U.S. visitors encountered any disagreeable incidents. The toddler who spat at me when I took his picture apparently was too young to have got the new line straight...
...music of the Roche sisters is startling, lacerating and amusing, pretty enough to sing along with, sly enough to linger. It restores a personal, lyric dimension to folk music, cuts through the smugness and self-absorption that have characterized it for too long. The Roches share a kind of skeptical innocence that is delicate but far from fragile. Maggie and Terre Roche flirted with fame once before and have logged a fair portion of time in the psychic danger zone. "We went so far out there/ Everybody got scared," Terre Roche wrote in one song...
These days, politics and theology no longer come up for much consideration. Questions raised in the Roches' music are decidedly personal. The songs are sharp and deceptively cool, like being stabbed by an icicle. After a while, the weapon disappears and only the wound remains. Maggie's Damned Old Dog proposes an ironic alternative to womanhood ("Do I wanna be a dog?/ any diddlin' male would do/ . . . Limpin' around in the moonlight/ coverin' up what I did"). The Married Men is a confession in cameo that cuts neatly both ways. "One says...
...ultimately become distractions and reduce the impact of some find performances. A film of abstract shapes, depicting the thoughts of the deaf, dumb, and blind Tommy ends up frying your eyeballs while conveying no impression of mental activity by any actor on stage at the time. The electronic music heralding Tommy's return to awareness competes with a band more than capable of communicating the power of the moment...
There is perhaps a message in this piece of music, some of which the Currier production certainly conveys. Strong individual work and extraordinarily tight musicianship by the band more than overcome lacklustre direction and any logistical crises in presenting a fit memorial for Keith...