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...Music, where she graduated with honors. Glennie then compounded her professional challenge by setting out as a soloist instead of a rank-and-file orchestral player. Plenty of people make a living playing the piano, violin, flute or cello. But how many live off their skill with the snare drum, the marimba, the xylophone? Beethoven, after all, never wrote a percussion concerto...
...Fruvous. Make no mistake, Bargainville is a true bargain Whereas Danny Peck uses many different styles and instruments to produce a weak sound, Moxy Fruvous gets a tremendously impressive sound from only a few instruments. These four guys combine excellent a cappella four part harmonies with acoustic guitar, accordion, snare drum and hand percussion. Imagine They Might Be Giants mixed with all-acoustic Phish, then add in a touch of Harvard Din and Tonics...
...friends the Sybionese Liberation Army, with head honcho himself Donald DeFrieze dancin' to Kool in his UNderWEAR. Wood blocks congos In Time mo' Sly. And suddenly, EW&F and JB and Sly and P-Funk and the AWB all soundin simiLAR and heaviER, NO MESS, ohh yeah, heavy snare and now HORN SECTIONS blowin' screamin' hot no hangin' back FO-ward again here hear here & IN YO' FACE. So dig this: "When we did wrong, papa beat the' hell out of us": Heavier and THICKer and ANGRYier...
...daughter have died in a car crash from which Julie barely escaped. So she hides away from her friends and herself. "I don't want any love, memories, belongings," she says. "Those are traps." It takes her the length of the film to realize that isolation is the deadliest snare, that the only release is art and passion. But the true drama can be found in Kieslowski's meticulous images. Cool and seductive, they are the perfect frame for Binoche's harried glamour...
...music, thankfully, isn't compromised by that of the lyrics. "We need a love revival/Somewhere for us to begin/To take apart the wounded hearts/and love them back together again/...gotta find the reasons why/It's easier to say goodbye" ("Easier to Say Goodbye"). Trumpets blare and sway; snare drums rock you gently; Oleta croons; your roommate walks in just in time to catch you belting that last note into your spare shoe-come-microphone...