Tag: Vol. 25 No. 27

ILLINOIS PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA The title of Lita Grier’s Renascence for flute and orchestra holds a double meaning: the ten-minute concertino not only was adapted from a sonata composed three decades ago but also signals the rebirth of Grier’s composing career, dormant since the mid-60s. At 16 Grier won a New York Philharmonic young composers’ contest. […]

Scandalously neglected and all but forgotten in recent years, Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson (1924-1978), perhaps the first world-class Argentinean director, enjoyed a certain vogue in this country in the early 60s–despite the stiff competition from France, Italy, and Japan in offering personal and stylistically expressive cinema. Among his films distributed in that era, La casa del angel […]

LITTLE MILTON Little Milton is one of the few active bluesmen who can trace their careers back to Sam Phillips’s legendary Sun label in Memphis. In those days Milton mimicked everyone from his Memphis compatriot B.B. King to New Orleans shouter Roy Brown with uncanny accuracy, and though his sides from that era are now […]

Philippe Genty’s shows, which so deftly combine puppetry and dance, have always been filled with dreamlike imagery–billowing sheets, waltzing performers who suddenly shrink down to nothing, tiny armies of office workers in identical suits and bowlers. But Genty’s latest work, Voyageur immobile (“Motionless Voyager”), is not merely dreamlike–it is a dream, plucked from Genty’s head […]