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...funk/hip-hop adventure with Biz Markie. His finest album may be 1996's Bug Music, a thrilling exploration of the jumpy, angular and surprisingly substantive music written for, among other things, 1940s cartoons. On his most recent disc, last year's A Fine Line, he brought together works by Stephen Sondheim, Ornette Coleman, Roy Orbison, Stevie Wonder and Giacomo Puccini. He was hoping to show, he wrote, "that a song untethered from its stylistic conventions could be heard anew." In fact, hearing familiar music as you've never heard it before is an experience that comes with nearly every Don Byron...
...funk/hip-hop adventure with Biz Markie. His finest album may be 1996's Bug Music, a thrilling exploration of the jumpy, angular and surprisingly substantive music written for, among other things, 1940s cartoons. On his most recent disc, last year's A Fine Line, he brought together works by Stephen Sondheim, Ornette Coleman, Roy Orbison, Stevie Wonder and Giacomo Puccini. He was hoping to show, he wrote, "that a song untethered from its stylistic conventions could be heard anew." In fact, hearing familiar music as you've never heard it before is an experience that comes with nearly every Don Byron...
Late in the second act of Into the Woods, the Sondheim musical that is this season’s Mainstage, the lead character of the Baker shares a touching duet with his long-lost father. The song, which is lovely and of major dramatic importance, is rendered beautifully by Matt V. Anderson ’03 and Jim C. Augustine ’01. However, despite their best efforts, the only thought echoing in the head of this reviewer was the song’s title—“No More...
...greatest problem with this production is its shallowness; it never attempts to go beyond the fairy tale. Whereas Sondheim puts a complex show with complex characters and meaningful themes in the style of a children’s entertainment, this production, under the direction of Sara B. Heller ’02, captures none of the sophistication or moral ambiguity of the material. It is children’s entertainment. Clear choices about characters’ motivations and rationality don’t register. Instead, the audience is left with gimmicks and inappropriately one-note performances...
written by Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine...