Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is Aida? Well, yes--as staged by a New York-based all-male company called La Gran Scena. This rare--and rarefied--troupe recognizes that opera thrives on the tension between the sublime and the silly. After all, when a 90-kg soprano trips down the castle steps trilling like a half-kilo canary in the mad scene in Lucia di Lammermoor, should one weep at her character's insanity or howl at the absurdity? La Gran Scena's answer is: both. As they see it, loving opera and laughing at it are one and the same thing...
...find a more bizarre record anywhere. With Coltrane struggling mightily to cling to his own advanced harmonic world against Taylor's barrage of atonal clusters, jarring rhythmic patterns, and jackhammer assaults on the piano, a profound tug-of-war between two musical camps ensues. Nobody wins, and the tension produced is exhausting both for the musicians and listeners. Still, this has to be one of the most interesting recordings of American music ever made. It has the curiosity value that one might experience hearing Frank Zappa conduct Beethoven...
Certainly this film moves methodically. Nothing in North Bath seems to travel faster than Sully's red pickup. And there is little tension. Never are we on the edge of our seats. Despite this, the film works marvelously by giving us something we rarely get in an American film; real people...
This is Aida? Well, yes -- as staged by a New York-based all-male company called La Gran Scena. This rare -- and rarefied -- troupe recognizes that opera thrives on the tension between the sublime and the silly. After all, when a 200-lb. soprano trips down the castle steps trilling like a 1-lb. canary in the mad scene in Lucia di Lammermoor, should one weep at her character's insanity or howl at the absurdity? La Gran Scena's answer is: both. As they see it, loving opera and laughing at it are one and the same thing...
...Primal Scream on the last night before finals is a great way to release tension and exercise those vocal chords. For added excitement, the inevitable and unflappable streakers which grace the Primal Screams keep our hearts beating a little faster--or turn us to stone, depending on the quality of the merchandise on display. It's time to boost House spirit and encourage mass participation. Allston Butt--Burr, we apologize--senior tutors, masters, and freshman deans should be required to participate in the nude. Sure, we might have an outbreak of nauseated sickness like the Freshman Union virus...