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Shine a Light begins as its own making-of documentary. In the preconcert planning, Scorsese asks for a playlist of the songs; he gets it just as the show starts. Mick Jagger frets that the moving cameras will distract the audience and that the lighting will throw too much heat on the stage. (As even the director realizes, "We cannot burn Mick Jagger.") During the concert, the singer shouts, as if to Scorsese, "These lights are burnin' up my ass!" He suffers for his art, but there's a film to be shot. Basically, Mick wants to give a great...
...issue is the fact that the preconcert publicity neglected to mention that the Living Stones are a Christian rock band. Perhaps the tone of his letter would have been quite different if instead the Living Stones had decided to push environment issues, battered women's awareness, or a multicultural student center...
...preconcert publicity had neglected to mention that a free message accompanied the free music: the message of the Christian gospel. The band proceeded to play a set of Beatles-era rock songs with the lyrics modified to reflect the evangelical mission. "Love me do" became "Love me Jesus...
...focus of the concert was the local premiere of Boston University composer Charles Fussell's fifth symphony. In a preconcert lecture, Fussell said that the piece, written in a town of only 25 residents, owes something to the "spaciousness of Wyoming." Featuring an expanded percussion section, it made many rhythmic demands that the orchestra faced with mixed results. Of the piece's five themes, only two were as compelling as the other music on the program: an angular theme for strings and a long chorale that sounded best in the brass. Once again concertmaster Salley Koo was first-rate...
Already this season Carnegie Hall had passed judgment on visiting orchestras from Boston, Washington, Indianapolis, Philadelphia. Detroit invaded Manhattan last week with a new technique. From preconcert cocktails to whopping, colorful programs, Henry Reichhold's Symphony treated Carnegie Hall to a deft, well-planned, super-sales-promotion campaign...
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