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Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet brought his world-renowned skills to bear in a compelling performance of “Piano Concerto in G.” The first movement was quick and clear, highlighting Ravel’s jazzier inclinations and showcasing the orchestra’s collective virtuosity as it navigated extreme contrasts in volume and abrupt changes in melodic quality. The second movement’s lilting waltz kept a surprisingly brisk pace, making Thibaudet’s rare indulgent suspensions all the more effective. He maintained a steady sense of rhythm into the frenzied third movement...
...with neighborhood nostalgia: “I could smell the same deep green of summer / Above me the same night sky was glowin’ / In the distance I could see the town where I was born.” Suddenly, the track picks up as the drums and piano kick in. Bruce’s guitar and Clarence Clemons’ saxophone both issue solos which complement the simple but powerful refrain, “Hey pretty darling, don’t wait up for me / It’s gonna be a long walk home...
...Random Spirit Lover” is a valiant attempt to live up to them, it doesn’t quite make it. Opener “The Mending of the Gown” flicks and flutters at hummingbird speeds, with verses punctuated by a stabbing guitar riff and frenetic piano accompaniment. Krug’s eccentric wail reverberates somewhere on the spectrum between the New Pornographers’ A.C. Newman and Polyphonic Spree’s Tim DeLaughter, sharing the latter’s unabashed enthusiasm and strange habit of lengthening his vowels. The track’s chaotic arrangement...
...With a Coin,” the album’s first single, lopes along to hand-claps and layered vocals, and something even fresher stands out on “The Devil Never Sleeps,” which blends a radio-ready chorus with honky-tonk piano riffs. Still, the album sags in places, too noticeably to be rescued by occasional brilliance. Much of it sounds uninspired, despite the fact that this is material Beam has supposedly been sitting on for some time. While 2004’s “Our Endless Numbered Days” had only...
With the collapse of the U.S.S.R. and the USW, the restaurant went through several hands before being bought by entrepreneur Andrei Deloss, who refurbished the Oak Hall. Now the fireplace still blazes cozily, a quiet piano sounds by the entrance and the former bedroom-cum-committee-room is available for private parties. Beria's sinister apartment upstairs has become a cigar saloon. The restaurant is still called the Writers' Club, but as a friendly waiter explains: "Poor writers now stay at home; rich ones come to us." 50 Povarskaya Street...