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This splendid book is a love letter and a dissertation, almost a song in itself.
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What it cost Meredith Monk to be uncompromising! In the early days of her experimentations, the dismissive, often patronizing reviews included lines like her music “made my cats bite each other.”
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“What we didn’t want was just another jazz festival. I hope it never turns into that. We were focused on early jazz, traditional jazz from New Orleans, dating back to the 1920s and 30s, before the advent of the big band era.”
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The targets of “King of the Hill”‘s satire have changed — as Texas culture has changed — but the relationships, and who the characters are at their core, have not.
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This alternately ecstatic and murky, pointed and obscure, allegory is a rare attempt to confront the pathological systems leading us to an uncertain fate.
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The week’s poem: Mark Scroggins’s “Zion Offramp 124”
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Newport Jazz sold out all three days in advance for the second year in a row, which made scheduling the primary acts across three stages prone to occasional mismatches between space and demand. But it’s still a golden ticket.
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Hopefully, Hollywood will take note of this impressive dramatic accomplishment, and more Indigenous stories will follow.
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The letters of this protean figure in American musical theater induced in this reader a pleasurable mixture of nostalgia, voyeurism, and insight.
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Film Review: “Made in New Jersey” — A Fabulous Trip in the Cinematic Way-Back Machine
This journey in the way-back machine contains many delights, some staged and some as part of the photographic record of America from 100-plus years ago.
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