the composer, after the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. with additional song lyrics by Murray Horwitz Performances View Past Performances Programme NoteMediaScoresFeaturesReviewsMore Info First performance December 20, 1999 Metropolitan Opera Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Jerry Hadley, tenor; Mark Baker, tenor;...
Music is by Jeanine Tesori with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. Opening night at The Candlelight was exciting. The cast and crew were in great form, and obviously looking at a long run. My only concern was understanding all that was said and sung. The diction will undoubtedly ...
Power metal often feels like its reserved exclusively for Europe and South America. For whatever reasons, the souped-up NWOBHM style never really latched on in the U.S., well, until DragonForce’s “Through the Fire and the Flames” invaded the ‘Guitar Hero’ franchise. The song’s outrage...
Mumford noted Stieglitz’s “astringent quality” that rose above the philistine tastes and “stupidities” of American life. LIFE AND WORK INTERTWINED…Clockwise, from top left: Alfred Stieglitz’s famed 1930 image of Grand Central Terminal; one of the photographer’s many images of clouds under...
This is the denial that must exist at the start of any Campbell-approved hero’s journey. It’s up to you whether you sit in that denial for the song’s full 90-second duration, or leave the First Threshold in the dust the second your eyes alight on the “Start Game” option. ...
Malcolm Gladwell had a podcast calledRevisionist History. He posed the question, "Why are rock lyrics never direct?" Nobody knows what [Nirvana's] "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is really about, but you know there's anger and confusion and desperation in that song and it's coming out. I thi...
This 1976 album by the American group Eagles is considered by many to be one of the best albums of all time. I don’t think it is, there are quite a few run-of-the-mill tracks on it. But I still consider it ground breaking and a true classic, with its allegorical lyrics that wil...
Rick Wakeman was my first hero. I dressed as him for Halloween once, when I was about eleven. Am I embarrassed by this? What would be the point? I still adore his performances on the classic Yes albums, and I can still deal withThe Six Wives of Henry VIII, a lovely bit of 70s ki...
came up with the idea for Footloose in 1979 and teamed up with Melnick’s IndieProd who set the production up at 20th Century Fox in 1981. Pitchford wrote the screenplay (his first) and most of the lyrics however, Fox put it into turnaround. In 1982, Paramount Pictures made a pay-or...
and also seemingly an anxious depressive. His music is a manifestation of his inner life, and thus his lyrics, delivery, and the beats he raps over are self-consciously disorienting and bizarre. Imagine being a rapper and hearing the beat that would become “Downward Spiral.” Where do you ...