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...this whole supergroup thing. Our neighbors to the north just play well together. First came megaband Broken Social Scene, the New York Yankees of Canuck indie rock. Then the infectious New Pornographers trickled south, displacing deserving American-born power pop peddlers. And now there’s Swan Lake, set to make Williamsburg, Brooklyn look like Flint, Michigan...
...graphic adventure “Loom” featured gameplay structured around the use of musical “spells” in sequence, and pioneered the use of existing music in games: much of its soundtrack was comprised of excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.”While innovations like this were initially confined to low-profile experiments, before long prominent studios got in on the action. Trent Reznor, mastermind of industrial group Nine Inch Nails, composed the entire soundtrack for id Software’s legendary 1996 shoot...
...narrator of the climatic title story asserts, “[Audiences] wanted to see a love story, and this was the big one, ‘Swan Lake,’ four acts of love, regret, death, and absolution.” Indeed, when ABT principals and lovers Lexa and Robbie dance the roles of the Swan Queen Odette and her prince Seigfried, they exhibit a perfect “erotic synergy.” Odette’s desire for her prince ultimately defeats the evil sorcerer von Rothbart, who would keep them apart...
...White Swan, Black Swan” exhibits an evocative vibrancy resulting from Sharp’s privileging of experiential description over critical terminology: “Like balsa bent into a bow, I am rocked into an impossible backward C, Nilas holding my arms and one leg above us, stringing me up. Then I am lashed beneath his body. My leg is extended high and pressed between us like a sword. Our pelvises meet and pulse. The audience takes a collective breath...
...White Swan, Black Swan By Adrienne Sharp Ballantine Books...