Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took two hours that night with periodic tactful reassurances from the MC about how the Who "were temperamental like all great artists," and how they had decided to rest a little in New York, etc. But finally the amplifiers did begin to appear on stage, narrow amps and big ones, amps of all shapes and sizes, 18 of them in all waiting like faithful dogs for their masters to come and re-vitalize them. The lights blackened and the Who sprinted...
...significance of which fact will appear by and by. John Entwistle, one of the more accomplished rock musicians around, who plays bass guitar and French horn and has been known to still a frenzied unruly crowd with a 20 minute horn solo, stood to the left of the stage, making it clear that he, for one, was not going to prance around. Funny how bass guitarists are generally more sober than their partners on the other instruments. Maybe it is because the bass man's sound comes so much from the gut that he has no libidinal impulses left over...
They know that movie-makers with their stuntmen, stage sets, and big budgets can make you think and feel what they want you to think and feel (not this kid; he's no fool...
Following a short intermission, all six musicians reappeared on the stage, divested of jackets and ties. Their new-found comfort and relief was reflected in a superb performance of Shubert's Cello Quintet. The piece requires a back and forth interplay of plucking between the violin and cello. This was done in such a way as to give the listener the impression of a teasing, question and answer conversation between the two instruments. Not once did the piece move slowly or the sound lose its rich quality. In the Allegretto especially, the opening theme was brought back with force...
There are plays and plays. Some should not be adapted or altered for performance on stage, but equally, there are other plays that positively need to be clamped down to a specific interpretation. Anouilh's "Waltz of the Toreadors" is one of the latter kind and suffers when a director is not willing to take liberties with the material, to chop and focus on some particular human experience...