Word: zorn
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Unlike Gershwin, Bacharach, perhaps because he worked in pop-rock and pop-soul idioms, has not been taken seriously by devotees of the Great American Songbook. But Tyner's album, along with another new CD (Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach) produced by avant-garde composer and klezmer enthusiast John Zorn and featuring a number of musicians with jazz leanings from New York's Downtown school, makes the case that Bacharach's melodies are worthy of being standards. Tyner says he's "shocked" that more jazz musicians haven't taken them...
Also remarkable are the senuous forms of Anders Zorn's ninteenth-century nudes and his well-rendered, impressionistic "Omnibus," with hatching strokes powerfully suggesting the jostled weight of human bodies. A tight, involved etching by contemporary artist David Schorr and a striking and politically charged work in an intense blue aquatint by Douglas Dowd are similarly unexpected highlights of the exhibit. These works show the range of etching as a medium of both great precision and, at times, emotional impact...
...Gardner. Some pieces, like the will and an architectural drawing of the building, explain the Museum itself--a building designed to house the more than, 2,500 art objects spanning 3,000 years, all collected within 25 years. Other objects, especially the portraits by John Singer Sargent and Anders Zorn, highlights the woman herself. Newspaper clippings from Boston papers around the turn of the century attest to society's fascination with Mrs. Jack; one article remarks on her "coiffure adornment"--a pair of immense diamonds attached to wire antenae, which she was spotted wearing at a social engagement...
...heavy cerebral stuff with forays into alternative worlds informed by rock, jazz, performacne art, and the folk music of various regions. Their concert Saturday, characteristically diverse in its content, comprised nine pieces, by Michael Daugherty. Osvaldo Golijov, George Antheil, Henry Cowell, Raymond Scott, Sofia Gubaidulina, Arvo Part, John Zorn and Scott Johnson...
...centerpiece of the program was Zorn's "Memento Mori." This is Zorn's fifth work for Kronos, and it has much in common with his earlier pieces. Zorn's compositional method is to compile a huge set of musical ideas, each notated on a filing card and lasting a few seconds; cartoon soundtracks are his major influence. While Kronos's attention span is not yet as short as Zorn's, there has been a disturbing tendency in their recent programs toward more and shorter pieces, and toward music with an easily grasped selling point. It is saddening...