Review
The point of Bob Dylan’s project is emotional rather than definitive: to probe the power of song to influence us, make us feel, and ultimately transform us.
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This is a strongly-played effort that makes a powerful case for the vitality and worth of Erwin Schulhoff’s oeuvre, particularly his mature chamber music.
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Overall, this is a strong program done in by unsatisfying recorded sound.
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Kick the Latch (the title refers to what is done to open the starting gate in a horse race), through its plain and spare authenticity, is a powerful and impressive success.
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Amanda Kramer’s created a thoroughly campy and celebratory ode to queerness that stands as both a timely political statement and a genuinely well-crafted piece of independent filmmaking.
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A wrap-up of the London Film Festival that focuses on two favorites, Inland and The Store.
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Pianist John Wilson, like his mentor Michael Tilson Thomas, is a servant of the music rather than its dictator and he knows both when and how to step back and let it speak.
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I know no more thoughtful disquisition, for the opera stage, on basic questions of life, death, war, love, power, and resistance.
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Love, anger, frustration, hope, sadness, lullabies — they are all here through movement that is at turns elegant and awkward, nuanced and propulsive.
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Book Review: “Folk Music — A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs”
At points Greil Marcus’ digressive style can seem like nervy brilliance, at others, idle whimsy. What ennobles the book is the critic’s love for his underlying subject: the soulful search for a truer America.
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