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...Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the first play performed by HRST this summer. “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” HRST’s last play this summer, embraces this course—unsmooth and all—as the only way to describe modern love...
...unsmooth jazz has grown restive again. Recent months have seen a number of albums push the boundaries of the music, making thoughtful attempts at mixing jazz with contemporary pop or, even more promisingly, world music. And so on one hand you have woodwind player Don Byron cutting Nu Blaxploitation (Blue Note), an album of overtly political funk and rap; it's not an entirely felicitous concept, but what a treat to hear Byron's clarinet--the fuddy-duddy instrument of Woody Allen!--snaking in and out of dark, fertile electric grooves. On the other hand you have saxophonist David Murray...
...scruffy...they had...their own new sound...A sound you had to run away and hide your ears from, or go as wild and ecstatisc as the people producing it...It was a new sound but it was being made by people who were like the audience, natural, unaffected, unsmooth...
...once--for Duncan's arrival at Inverness Castle. She makes some use of a follow-spot, but it is never obtrusive in musical-comedy fashion. Many of her effects would be impossible without the marvelous unit set designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian--two converging cavernous walls of shiny but unsmooth silver, parts of which can swing in; and, hovering overhead, a structure suggestive of some enormous gray mythic bat, through whose wings lights sometimes filter. Ter-Arutunian also designed the costumes, which belong to no one period. For the most part they are of gray and black, though Macbeth...
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