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Revelling is balanced by the more mellow and poignant lineup on Reckoning, whose songs are more melancholic and conducive to introspection. Acoustic guitar and the piano combines to create appropriate accompaniment. The highlight of the second album is a track titled “Imagine That,” during which the narrator describes how she can not control the overpowering emotions and conditions that she encounters. Not only are the metaphors clear and powerful, but the acoustic guitar merges with DiFranco’s voice to invoke a more painful and melancholy feeling. Another high point...
...performer trained by Bob Fosse, examined such incalculable moments. With a dramatic, focused plot “Change” searched for the possibility of change through caring. The motions of the dancers attempted to overcome the crushing insecurity of life represented by the dark, sparse stage and eerie piano score by Shade...
...signature harmonica solos are rare and truncated and many of the songs sound like everyday pop, closer to poor copies of Barenaked Ladies or Dave Matthews than to vintage blues. The notable exception is “Pretty Angry (for J. Sheehan),” a superb blues piano ballad in memory of their deceased bassist. But most of the songs are clearly closer to the pop, and not the blues, side of the rock spectrum. Bridge is a decent album, but somewhat disappointing when contrasted with Blues Traveler’s previous efforts. Hopefully Blues Traveler will go back...
...exuberant centerpiece of the Mark Morris Dance Group's 20th-anniversary season. Sixteen of the choreographer's 100-odd dances--from L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, a full-evening extravaganza for 24 dancers, four singers, chorus and orchestra, to Peccadillos, a duet for Morris and a toy piano--were presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Meanwhile, across the street, the company is moving into the brand-new Mark Morris Dance Center, its first permanent home in the dance capital of the world. The $6 million building's top floor contains one of the biggest rehearsal studios...
...treated medically or surgically because the damage to her ears is sensorineural. That means some of the 30,000 to 50,000 hair cells in the inner ear, which are responsible for transmitting sound information to the auditory nerve, have been injured or destroyed, leaving the ear "like a piano with missing keys," according to David Fabry, director of audiology at the Mayo Clinic and president of the American Academy of Audiology...