From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2015 #286 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, July 15 2015 Volume 2015 : Number 286 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Love Has Many Faces [Kenney C Kennedy ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:44:12 -0500 From: Kenney C Kennedy Subject: Love Has Many Faces i received "Love Has Many Faces - A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced" today. i own the DVD of "The Fiddle and the Drum" choreographed by Jean Grand-MaC.tre & danced by The Alberta Ballet. (i cried near the end.) More on that, maybe. i already know i'm going to like this box set / mix. For those who did not rush out & buy it, there is a xerox'd handwritten note by Joni i will transcribe here. "Dear Listeners and Readers, You will notice a discrepancy between what the list says the sequence is and what you'll hear at the beginning of Act II. This error is on me. Just before we went to print I changed that sequence. We continued to remaster and during that process I realized I had lost the opening. I had a deseision (sic) to make -- leave it or fix the music. I fixed the music. Here is the correct order: (1) Court and Spark (2) Not to Blame (3) Nothing Can Be Done (4) Comes Love (5) Trouble Child (6) No Apologies. My apologies, Joni" (Listed: 1-C&S; 2-NA; 3-TC; 4-NTB; 5-NCBD; 6-CL) i just LOVE that this is in her cursive, & sorta wish i knew handwriting analysis! i like the curlicue she puts on her capital I. There are 13 tracks per disc (act), 14 on one. i had at one point thought of going to Alberta to see the ballet i thought was in production. It was on the AB site i learned that the choreographer had been unable to convince Joni to pare the source material to an hour or so (a full-length ballet). What i hope happens eventually is the company will do the entire 4 acts in 4 seasons. That might be too much to hope for. The ballet TFATD was successful -- i'll say with the exception of "The Beating of Black Wings," which did not receive applause, or only a smattering. (i won't go into why i think that was.) All right, TFATD (ballet) runs 48 min 40 sec ~ Act One of LHMF runs 55 min 38 sec. i didn't calculate time of Acts 2-4, but i don't think there would've been a problem with 7 more minutes, altho that's not a minuscule amount of choreography, if they could've agreed to limiting it to the one set. i really don't understand why other famous companies aren't lining up to do at least one act. A 4-hour ballet in one night, or even over one season, is of course out of the question. It's pretty amazing Joni was allowed to dictate the play list for TFATD, when the Jean approached her with an idea of what songs he'd wanted, and probably already had an outline of what he would do. We'll never know what that would have been like; pretty damn good i bet! i'm listening to Tax Free (Act 2) now, which is a good remaster, but am bewildered what it has to do with (romantic) LOVE; ditto for The Wolf That Lives in Lindsay* or Hana (same act), Lakota (Act 3), and God Must Be a Boogie Man+ & Raised on Robbery (Act 4). (*absolutely love this ~ +never cared for GMBABM, & disliked it a lot as almost a comedy act in the video of her Wild Things Run Fast tour) ("And now i sit up here a critic..." :o) cordially, kK ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2015 #286 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendto joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------