Word: pianos
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...clearly designed "The Arrival," which is the first cut on this album to showcase the vast talents of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. The meat of the piece is an offbeat dialogue between the dulcet tones of Marsalis' muted trumpet and the strong chords of Roberts' piano. The mood in this song is a light, happy one, reminiscent of Coltrane in parts. But the tone is definitely more mellow than some of the other cuts on this album...
...PIANO LESSON. This stunning work by dramatist August Wilson, at Chicago's Goodman Theater, combines the emotional clout of his Pulitzer-prizewinning ( Fences with the haunting lyricism of his Joe Turner's Come and Gone...
That is the premise of The Piano Lesson, which opened last week at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. The lesson of the title -- an instruction in morality rather than scales or fingering -- makes the work the richest yet of dramatist August Wilson, whose first three Broadway efforts, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, each won the New York Drama Critics Circle prize as best play of the year. The fact that producers are not shoving each other in haste to bring Piano Lesson to Broadway, especially in a season when the Tony Awards...
...Piano Lesson debuted more than a year ago at the Yale Repertory Theater, where Wilson has launched all his plays. In that production, the work seemed an intriguing but unpolished amalgam of kitchen-sink realism (there is literally one onstage) and window-rattling, curtain-swirling supernaturalism. Not much of the actual text has changed. But at the Goodman the play confidently shuttles spectators between the everyday present and the ghostly remnants of the past, until ultimately the two worlds collide. The first glimpse of the spookily poetic comes before a word is spoken, when a shaft of white light illumines...
...PIANO LESSON. This stunning work by dramatist August Wilson, at Chicago's Goodman Theater, combines the emotional clout of his Pulitzer-prizewinning Fences with the lyricism of his Joe Turner's Come and Gone...