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...attempt to reinvigorate culture, to rediscover the visceral in art, and its impact was a widespread and undeniable celebration of the senses, from Picasso's "The Race" (painted in 1922, the same year as Ulysses and "The Waste Land") to Josephine Baker's Paris performances to the jazz rage of the 1920s and 1930's. Modernism brought with it a sense of sophisticated gusto. It seemed to whoop an uninhibited...
MUSIC Andrew Davis' opera about Malcolm X is a study of rage...
Medved's bloodshot rage makes it hard for him to perform the crucial job of a film critic, which is to see movies -- to figure out what's going on -- and report it. Here is his analysis of Sleeping with the Enemy: an "indictment of conventional wedlock as a cruel and unhealthy arrangement." Well, it's not; it is a melodrama about wife abuse -- a social disorder Hollywood didn't invent. Medved, determined to alienate even his core audience of people who think Disney cartoon features are innocuous entertainment, proclaims that The Little Mermaid "effectively encouraged children to disregard...
...BOTTOM LINE: A powerful opera brings vividly to life the rage and pain of an incendiary figure...
Davis frames the text's tough words with equally uncompromising music. Incessant rhythmic ostinatos reflect Malcolm's deepening monomania; the voice line shears off unexpectedly in outbursts of rage and pain, while the jazz- tinged orchestration firmly locates the action in time and place...