Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Henry "Hopper" Nash, (Sean Penn), the film's protagonist, is a James Dean facsimile who struggles to win the heart of a supposedly wealthy schoolgirl, Caddie (Elizabeth McGovern), by leaving her flowers and playing tunes for her on the piano. When not occupied with thoughts of Caddie, Hopper--Nash's affectionate nickname--work as a pin boy at the local bowling alley, pals around with his high school buddy. Nick (Nick Cage) and romanticizes about going off to battle and blowing up Japs...
Certainly the play's atmosphere should be gloomy and oppressive, but the production's musical effects are extraneous and downright silly. At the close of each scene, the lights dim, and the family exits with Mary creeping off in her ghostly white gown. A spooky cadence of piano notes smooths the transition to the next scene. Whatever this discordant clanging is meant to represent--Mary's crippled hands, crippled hopes?--it diverts the audience's attention from the play's fluidity and haunting themes...
...great pianist, however, including Berkey, will be somewhat stiffled when playing primarily keyboards. This is the first Fresh Aire album without a single piano "Interlude," a shame, as these short demonstrations of pure style were one of the band's great trademarks. One reason for the omission could be last year's release of Interludes, a collection of all of Berkey's interludes from the first four albums--a possible reluctance to continue along the same line. This, however, would not explain the additional lack of organ Tocattas which started off their last two albums. In pursuit of what...
...MORE REASONABLE explanation can be found in the album's theme--there are no purely piano interludes on the moon. That is why "Release," which starts out very much like "Interlude I" (from I), complete with the appropriate pauses, changes into an enchanted theme of discovery like the one which accompanies the opening of the Ark in "Raiders of the Lost Ark. "Furthermore, living long before Stanley Kubrick. Kepler seems to have missed the age of Tocattas in space they were probably reserved for such mundane things as Summer and Winter (the themes of III and IV, respectively...
...builds to a rocking theme with the horns playing a theme of success, or victory which recurs several times on the album it sounds almost like the theme at the end of a western. The high flute with a synthesized back ground, a low clarinet, and flowing strings with piano portray a beautiful image of an "Earth Rise," (described "The most pleasant of all occupations on Levania is the contemplation of its volva...