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...138th Street.” And Matt Barrick—possibly the most enthusiastic drummer out there, judging by the amount of time he spent off his seat—kept every song moving. Keyboardist Walter Martin provided the melodic base for most songs, but he left the piano playing to Maroon...
About the piano: it’s a seemingly ancient little instrument which the Walkmen famously tote around from show to show, and it maintains a nearly comic presence on stage. It sounds part Fisher-Price toy, part tinkly player piano, and looks like the centerpiece of some 19th century saloon. But it comes in handy for the Walkmen, who use it centrally in “We’ve Been Had,” the first song written for Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me and the first single, familiar to some from the Saturn Ion car commercial...
...festival of music featuring large, rarely performed works and an examination of the relationship between soloist and ensemble. Friday’s program features Salvatore Sciarrino’s Hermes; Elliot Carter’s Double Concerto for Harpsichord; Mario Davidovsky’s Synchronisms No. 6 for piano and tape; and Giancento Scelsi’s Anahit. Saturday’s program includes George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae; George Ligeti’s Cello Concerto; Bernard Rands’ Concertino for oboe; and Tristan Murail’s Ethers. A discussion with composers Mario Davidovsky and Bernard...
Boston’s own the Dresden Dolls perform their unique and enthralling Brechtian punk cabaret. The girl piano player and boy drummer duo are touring off their stunning 2003 self-titled album. With vivid theatrical costumes and seductively pretentious rock, their live show is one of the most visually and musically exciting out there. Tickets $13. 8 p.m. Axis, 13 Lansdowne Street, Boston...
...World" in 1963. Sternad worked from Seuss sketches to devise rolling, arid science fiction landscapes, ladders that stretch to the sky, gilded bedrooms and grotty dungeons and, for the 500 boys to play at the climax, a gigantic two-tiered piano with 44,000 keys. Seuss peopled these vast, forbidding vistas with characters from his own teeming imagination (and his old notebooks): hulking sentries, their skin painted dark green; writhing musicians (for the big ballet, a mandatory item in any early-'50s musical); and two nasty roller-skating gents joined by a single long beard...