Word: trumpet
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Maybe The Crimson ought to trumpet, that The Globe doesn't really care whether its pieces are completely accurate...
...smirched fingerprints are evident on both projects. Like Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Goonies is all bustle and noise and adolescent ingenuity. Like E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Back to the Future has a gentler pace and a heart as big as all suburbia. Both new pictures trumpet the familiar Spielberg moral: stranded in the wilderness of kiddom, American youth can fight its way out and help its parents survive...
...power of the play comes from the barely suppressed rage of its central characters: Ma Rainey (Theresa Merritt), a fierce, massive singer who has reacted to prejudice by creating an isolated world in which she need not tolerate the least compromise, and her backup trumpet player (Charles Dutton), a keenly ambitious composer-arranger who is fixated on the memory of his mother's rape by white thugs. When these two potent wills clash, the bystander who suffers is, inevitably, one of their own and not a white oppressor. Episodic and slow but vividly real in portraying even minor characters...
Despite his extensive experience playing solo concerts and recitals and accompaniments for other instruments, the Boston native says that he would like to study the works of more composers and perhaps learn to play more instruments. In high school, Blacklow played the trumpet, but explains, "I wanted to practice two hours of that and two hours of piano, so I dropped it." Now, he is interested in taking up other keyboard instruments, like the harpsichord...
...music relaxes to a jazzy trumpet solo, two dancers stretch and connect their limbs on the floor. It is an exercise in absolute body control. Soon a flirtations woman appears pursued by two suitors. A mime progresses, parodying his coquettish affair. But at all times the dance if self remains of primary emphasis: ne's attention is drawn first to the breathtaking technique, then to the drama...