Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dvorak's undeservedly neglected Fifth Symphony received a taut performance that, among other virtues, was notable for the breathtaking precision of the strings. Two days later in Philadelphia, Muti took an Apollonian view of Berlioz's sprawling "dramatic symphony," Romeo et Juliette, featuring Soprano Jessye Norman and Bass-Baritone Simon Estes. For all its splendor, however, the performance could have used more intensity and less Gallic detachment...
Kristin A. Goss '87 Night Editors: Maia E. Harris '88 David S. Hilzenrath '87 Joseph F Kahn '87 Joseph Menn '87 Matthew A. Saal '87 Feature Editor: Thomas J. Winslow '87 Sports Editor: Geoffrey H. Simon '88 Photo Editor: Bruce M. Kluckhohn '87 Copy Editor: Peter C. Krause '89 Business Editor: Dahlia Weinman...
...Simon F, a London native, has been interested in music since he was young. His debut LP, Gun, is the fruit of his 1984-85 songwriting done in collaboration with semi-namesake and London doppelgang Simon G. His material is claimed to represent an attempt to describe his past by relating what he considers to be both "the two biggest concerns in pop music" and "two of the key things in life": sex and violence...
...songs themselves carry through fairly faithfully with Simon's claimed themes. "Baby Doll Love" depicts the sexual charms of young girls, and "A Million Miles from Happiness" discusses love, faith, disappointment, and heroin. In addition to the nine original cuts on the album, the opening track, "I Want You Back," is a cover of a song originally written by Dave Faulkner, of the Australian band Hoodoo Gurus. Simon provides an interesting synth-pop adaptation of this wild tune, but the more driving and sincere Gurus version remains vastly superior...
...launch a video career, presumably in search of the publicity offered by MTV and other video-music sources. Their attitudes about video, however, seem to differ widely: Pat Gribben of the Adventures claims that he feels music is far more important than video, but Divinyl Christina Amphlett and Simon F both project a definite image to accompany their music. The music, as Gribben predicts, may well suffer because of these efforts to do two things at once...