Word: musics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Despite its frequent use of music, Good is not a musical. This use of music is simply one of the play's ingenious, innovative touches. The songs and symphonic pieces break up the monotony of Halder's long soliloquies, adding comic relief or exaggerating irony when necessary. As the play's events unfold, the music gradually becomes more serious to match the severity of Hitler's increasingly powerful position. Musical director John Baxindine '00 does an admirable job as band leader, and his three fellow musicians, prominently displayed at center stage, perform even the most intricate pieces with style...
...rock and roll, he beginning to turn his creative energies to another medium: he is writing a novel. The plot? "It's about somebody whose past changes, so by the time the book ends the beginning couldn't have happened," he says. Odd? Certainly. As brilliant as his music? One can only hope...
...late '70s with the Soft Boys, who broke up in 1980. He spent the '80s and early '90s with the Egyptians, steadily building a huge underground of connisseur-grade fans who came to shows as much for his surreal, almost Dadaist rants between songs as for the music. In May of 1996 he played a 30th anniversary remake of Bob Dylan's seminal Royal Albert Hall concert in a pub near the famed original venue, and later in the year he released a solo album dubbed Moss Elixir. In 1998, longtime fan Johnathan Demme, who directed "The Silence...
...admiring each other. "It must be totally horrendous to be in love with something so like yourself," he remarked before launching into the next song. The songs themselves were a mix of old and new work (Hitchcock describes the show as "a resum of what I've done in music.") but it was the man's intermittent rant that was most fascinating. Interrupted occasionally by the entrance of other band members, he told of a higher plane of existence that is like a rock club, a dark place full of "the smells and spirits of the wreckage of the past...
Liebert Misses Distinction Between Rock, Top 40 Music...