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Theatre Reviews
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... in the very large comic footprints of Zero Mostel and Phil Silvers. He triumphs in the role. He gets every laugh, and his singing voice is far better than either of those two giants.
Pseudolus is slave ...
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Created on 09 June 2023
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Classical
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... the encomiums I bestowed on the SLSO for “Le sacre du Printemps” last week, my well of superlatives might be running dry. Even so, I need to draw from it once again if I am to adequately describe the sheer ...
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Created on 09 May 2023
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Classical
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... Orchestra on the SLSOs Spotify playlist.
You won't need a printed translation at Powell Hall this weekend, of course, because the translation will be projected on a screen above the stage.
The ...
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Created on 03 May 2023
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Classical
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... premiere, “Le Sacre du Printemps” by Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971). Unfortunately, COVID-19 shut the season down in March and we never got to hear the orchestra’s much-anticipated performance of that remarkable ...
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Created on 02 May 2023
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Classical
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... us to the Big Finale, the score for the 1913 ballet "Le Sacre du Printemps” (“The Rite of Spring”) by Igor Stravinsky. The third in a series of series of successful collaborations between Stravinsky and ...
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Created on 26 April 2023
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Classical
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When he took the stage last Sunday afternoon (April 23rd), St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) Conductor Laureate Leonard Slatkin noted that this would be his last appearance on “this particular version” ...
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Created on 25 April 2023
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Classical
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... a bit same-y in mood. Mr. Barnes ruefully remarked that Williamson has halted composition to focus on music scholarship.
The final work on the printed program indicated unconventional concert thinking. ...
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Created on 24 February 2023
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Classical
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... Rimsky-Korsakov’s oft-performed “Russian Easter Overture” (3rd). It’s worth noting that in the original order printed in Playbill, Rimsky-Korsakov was to open the concert, while “The World’s Ransoming” ...
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Created on 17 February 2023
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Classical
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... de Printemps,” are heard less often). Walsh calls it “an almost cinematic stretch of musical footage, a twenty-minute travelogue that depends for its effect on the multiple layering of different colours ...
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Created on 16 February 2023
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Classical
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... Malats (1872-1912, and not “1972-1921”, on the printed insert, a P.D.Q. Bach moment there, besides the erroneous years on both ends). Besides the frozen iPad, if the late arrival limited warm-up time for ...
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Created on 24 January 2023
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Classical
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... music about the birth of Jesus Christ, the printed program featured 9 works by 6 composers, with 4 of the composers contemporary. As with the SLCC’s previous concert at the Ursuline Academy, SLCC artistic ...
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Created on 19 December 2022
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Classical
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... Bogan, “To Be Sung on the Water”. This set made for a nice, more restrained contrast to the opener. This reviewer heard some slight deviations in the opening stanza of “O Waly, Waly” to the printed program ...
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Created on 17 November 2022
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Film Reviews
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... led eventually to a “Solomon King” print, badly in need of repair, in the UCLA Film and TV Archive. In press notes, Watts’ widow, Belinda Burton-Watts, writes, “I had been praying that my husband’s accomplishments ...
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Created on 11 November 2022
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Classical
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... of Poulenc’s music will recognize his familiar fingerprints, where the high spirits of the outer movements are balanced with the comparative tenderness of the middle, slow movement. As well, in comparison ...
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Created on 30 October 2022
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Classical
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... the Naylor and the Tallis. Mr. Barnes wryly noted that the music for the Sowerby was out of print, a bit of a challenge in the age of Spotify, YouTube and iTunes where nominally every piece of music ever ...
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Created on 09 October 2022
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Film Reviews
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... a discussion of that evening’s program. Friday, the 12th, in a restored. pristine print, director René LaLoux’s animated, science fiction treasure, “Fantastic Planet/La planète sauvage” screens.
Located ...
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Created on 05 August 2022
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Film Reviews
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... “Jack Reacher” novels, the first season adapts “Killing Floor,” Child’s 1997 debut, as its blueprint. And, as with many series, a murder provides the catalyst for subsequent events.
More significantly, ...
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Created on 14 April 2022
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Film Reviews
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... moves with Ken Burns swipes. In the interstices, he printed pertinent quotes from gay men, such as Gore Vidal and Walt Whitman.
For another beautiful thing, the documentary presents Nini and Treadwell ...
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Created on 25 March 2022
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Classical
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... as it turned out, was not a bad thing at all. The program went from mostly Mozart to all Mozart, and it was all so well done that once you got past the printed program inserts, there was nothing to even ...
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Created on 06 March 2022
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Film Reviews
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... to do it when you're alive."
And that's the point of Season Three of this amazing and very realistic show.
This whole series has Gervais' handprints all over it. That's a good thing. He wrote the dialogue ...
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Created on 04 February 2022