Review
There’s hardly a minute in this hour-long show that isn’t stirred by singing, clapping, stomping, and drumming.
The band has tackled the Trump era with an urgent political edge on two recent albums that have surely lost them a share of good ’ole boys who were part of earlier audiences.
Composer Steve Lampert wrote “Zigsaw” at the request of saxophonist Noah Preminger, whose group recorded it for one of 2019’s most provocative albums.
At times, Zombi Child successfully hovers between spooky documentary and an art house coming-of-age film.
A pianist of real character and refinement – plus a huge career in Europe – Lucas Debargue was on hand to lend his musicianship to a relatively rare outing of Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto no. 2.
Pauline Kael capitalized on counterculture snobbery, the pecking order of the oh-so enlightened.
As my second wave feminist companion said as we left the theater, “That was hilarious. And I am SO ANGRY.”
From the first page of Martha Ackmann’s new book on Emily Dickinson, you know you’re reading something entirely different.
Storytelling is big business in concert halls these days, and as a yarn spinner Sarah Walker is in a class her own.
The apocalyptic mayhem is glorious and certainly cathartic. Still, I have to ask: is this how women will rise up and take what’s ours? With violence?
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