From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2009 #362 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Wednesday, December 9 2009 Volume 2009 : Number 362 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: C,S,&N [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] John Kelly [Gerald Notaro ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 07:55:36 -0500 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: RE: C,S,&N In the Rolling Stone article about the concerts, Crosby stated that they have officially retired the song but dusted it off for this concert. This may be the final performance of it by these guys, but I'm willing to bet they do it again. Bob NP: Shalini, "Desperate for Dawn '02" - ------------------------------------------------------------ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. - ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:09:11 -0500 From: Gerald Notaro Subject: John Kelly JMDL favorite and Joni performing John Kelly in a NY production: This journey into hell lacks fire By FRANK SCHECK *Last Updated:* 1:49 PM, December 8, 2009 *Posted:* 12:43 AM, December 8, 2009 The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has exerted a siren pull on artists through out the ages, so it's no surprise that Rinde Eckert, an avant-garde theater director/playwright/performer, would have a go at it. His new rock-opera adaptation, "Orpheus X," has its moments of stark beauty and a few imaginative twists. But it's more effective as a provocative if slight meditation on art and creativity than a tragic portrait of love and loss. Eckert's Orpheus is a superstar rocker -- and the physically imposing, bald actor looks like an aging member of a vintage heavy-metal band. When a cab he's in hits and kills the beautiful poet Eurydice (Suzan Hanson), he becomes obsessed with the memory of her dying in his arms. He abandons his career, much to the consternation of his manager (John Kelly), who arranges for his guilt-ridden client to visit Hades and rescue his beloved. But Eurydice isn't so eager to return. As Persephone, the Queen of the Dead (Kelly, again), tells her: "You'll do well here. Poets generally do . . . all the narrative junkies feel perpetually unsatisfied." And when Eurydice learns that her memory will be constantly erased and her poems will seem perpetually fresh, she's hooked. The story is told largely in musical form, and Eckert's muscular baritone, Hanson's gorgeous soprano and Kelly's ethereal falsetto are equally forceful. The onstage four-piece band, which includes a bass and viola, plays up a storm. But the piece is more technically impressive than it is emotionally convincing, and its use of such by-now standard devices as video projections (mostly of the nude Eurydice making her way to Hades) feels tired and unimaginative. Maybe it's time for artists to find fresher myths to reimagine. ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2009 #362 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------