tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post116883733175552715..comments2024-01-24T08:24:14.555-05:00Comments on My Favorite Intermissions: Hardly a ReviewMaury D'annatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14136129943169313348noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1168995464940627212007-01-16T19:57:00.000-05:002007-01-16T19:57:00.000-05:00It looks like with Alsop at the helm of the Baltim...It looks like with Alsop at the helm of the Baltimore Symphony, we're going to be hearing more Glass in concerts here in Baltimore (Glass' home town or at least where he lives now while on the Peabody faculty). Not sure how much I like him yet, though he writes a good film score. I recognized his style readily when I saw "Roving Mars." (Maury: Give "Children of Men" another go. I'm squeamish, too, and I was not put off by the level of violence in this movie. The tone is kind of grim and dark, but you'll need a box of tissues for a couple of the scenes with the baby.)Clayton Kooncehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05075385150588253823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1168906385111908802007-01-15T19:13:00.000-05:002007-01-15T19:13:00.000-05:00Maury, you have also gotten your freak on by means...Maury, you have also gotten your freak on by means of a Sumi Jo Recital disc! <I>It's the God's honest truth, people!</I>Grrghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03411931791000663919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1168899279309244752007-01-15T17:14:00.000-05:002007-01-15T17:14:00.000-05:00Oh, Nick, I've lied to you, rotten that I am. I n...Oh, Nick, I've lied to you, rotten that I am. I never actually played Phillip Glass. (I keep worrying it's Philip and not Phillip. Nevermind, who cares.) I was using that as a convenient stand-in so I could make the joke. I <I>have</I>, however, made out to the accompaniment of the nightmare monologue from Elektra. No shit.Maury D'annatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14136129943169313348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1168884639344285862007-01-15T13:10:00.000-05:002007-01-15T13:10:00.000-05:00I love Glass' film scores. One of my all-time fav...I love Glass' film scores. One of my all-time fave movies is <I>The Hours</I>, largely because of the perfectly gauged moods and emotions conveyed by his music. Ah, but one of my all-time most horrific musical moments was being stuck in traffic on the Bay Bridge one blisteringly hot day breathing exhaust fumes and listening to a broadcast of <I>Satyagraha</I>. As the endless repetition went on and on, suicide was seriously contemplated, avoided only because I was on my way to meet out of town guests who I really wanted to see. I think maybe his musical style works better as an accompaniment within a broader context than as the main focus of attention.<BR/><BR/>Ariadne, if I were to meet you at speed dating and you mentioned Shostakovich operas in our alloted time, I would invite you for a drink.winpalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03138998162300005843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1168882645901664122007-01-15T12:37:00.000-05:002007-01-15T12:37:00.000-05:00I love Phillip Glass,, and have since he came on t...I love Phillip Glass,, and have since he came on the scene back in the Paleolithic... back when I was in college (= early '80's). <BR/><BR/>To "get" Phillip Glass you have to embrace you inner Zen *and* your sense of the sublimely ridiculous all at the same time. ['Course I was into obscure Shostakovich operas back then too. Not exactly "hot date" material, back then, was I?]<BR/><BR/>I have noticed Phillip Glass style music in alot of recent movies, and have been thinking for some time that Phillip Glass somehow fits perfectly with this Technology Age we are in.<BR/><BR/>That certain restless repetitiveness characteristic of his music is so uncannily spritual yet supremely annoying, isn't it? I feel it somehow captures an emotion many of us have been feeling at this period of Time.Princess Alpenrosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02745033267349506217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1168878235580756882007-01-15T11:23:00.000-05:002007-01-15T11:23:00.000-05:00You know, I got as far as the ticket line to see C...You know, I got as far as the ticket line to see <I>Children of Men</I> when I got a text message back in response to a query I had sent about the film, namely that the violence is less "somebody gets shot and maybe bleeds" and more "help! this is brutal! I can't watch this!" Well, I am a noted pansy about screen violence and turned right back around, ticket unpurchased. I just feel like really hideous violence is used as an easy emotional punch these days, though I doubt that's what Alfonso Cuaron does since he seems to be brilliant. Whatever, I don't enjoy seeing such things. It's possible I'll Netflix it and hide under the covers with my cat/fast-forward through those parts.Maury D'annatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14136129943169313348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-1168875180438756882007-01-15T10:33:00.000-05:002007-01-15T10:33:00.000-05:00I was nuts about this movie. During the opening cr...I was nuts about this movie. During the opening credits, the friends with whom I was seeing the movie were all, "Who wrote this brilliant not-a-score?" To which I replied, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it's the guy who wrote all those "not-an-opera"s, Mr. Glass.<BR/><BR/>No!, they replied incredulously. How delicious it is to be proven the superior listener <I>in print</I> mere seconds later.<BR/><BR/>Other movies you must see before Oscar ruins them by sending middle America en masse:<I> Pan's Labyrinth (El Labarinto del Fauno)</I>and <I>Children of Men</I>.Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02529720009266903423noreply@blogger.com