Word: pits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here's where it gets weird. I get an e-mail back telling me to go ahead. So I called AAHLRSA and adopted that big slice of Los Angeles I had been coveting. Bette was very excited. "Have you ever seen the 5? The 5 is such a pit." She advised me to drive on my highway often. "You always visit your mile, and you complain, 'I want more landscaping...
Instead of bowing before MTV's shiny-suit-ridden, treble-enhanced Jam of the Week, I pit myself against the MC I have yet to meet through lyrics saturated with wordplay and allusions and urban imagery and political consciousness. I pump my fist when a colleague on stage instructs me to, roam sidewalks with a perennially playing walkman, love few things more than a huddle of cats dropping science to beatboxes and split cheap cigars open while listening to my newly-purchased Roots album (by the way, buy it now, it's truly ridiculous...
Welcome to the other end of Mass Ave. Here, at the crossroads of the South End, Roxbury and Dorchester, and entirely different set of sights and sounds as well as social ills await, a bit more pressing than those found in the pit...
Welcome to the other end of Mass Ave. Here, at the crossroads of the South End, Roxbury and Dorchester, an entirely different set of sights and sounds as well as social ills await, a bit more pressing than those found in the pit...
...most significant aspects of BSO'sperformance was the readily apparent emphasis onorchestration. Unlike most stagings of opera,where the orchestra sits in the pit, the membersof BSO were on stage, only slightly below theelevated set. Most definitely this was because ofSymphony Hallãs architecture, which was built toaccommodate orchestral events, but something stillhas to be said for the decision to perform theopera in that setting. The result was of mixedbenefits. Although the BSO sounded the best that Ihad ever heard them, the orchestra tended, attimes, to drown out the vocalists...