From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V7 #279 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Friday, November 22 2002 Volume 07 : Number 279 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Palace of Auburn Hills meet and greet [JulieAnneS78@aol.com] boston globe lowell review [dances with virgos ] tori @ the river lounge in st. louis [dances with virgos ] vh1 storytellers repeat (maybe) [dances with virgos ] free lance-star review [dances with virgos ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:28:10 EST From: JulieAnneS78@aol.com Subject: Palace of Auburn Hills meet and greet If anyone out there is attending, could you please let me know what time you plan on getting there?? I usually get to the m&g's pretty early, but I don't know if the Palace Security will let people in the lot before 10AM?? Did anyone here attend the m&g at the Palace for FTCH- any info on this experience would definetly help? Thanks, Julie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:31:32 -0500 From: dances with virgos Subject: boston globe lowell review Tori Amos connects with spell-binding set By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff, 11/21/2002 LOWELL - Try to recall the last time you attended a pop concert at a sports arena where posted signs instructed in no uncertain terms that there was to be "No Standing." How about a sold-out rock show where you weren't allowed to take your seat during a song? When's the last time you saw Tori Amos? For the uninitiated, an Amos performance isn't about two hours of music. It's about creating conditions that are ripe for transmission. Fifteen years and seven albums into her career, Amos is still enchanted oracle to an estrogen-heavy fan base hungry for magical moods, meaningful silences, and cosmic-grade revelations. Some would say it's a fine line between visionary faerie queen and fantastical flake, but Amos makes the distinction with clear-eyed focus. Her spells are hard-won and undreamy, crafted of stark, careful poetry and finely wrought melodies. That she managed to cast them to the rafters at the Tsongas Arena - hardly an intimate venue - is testimony to Amos's musical command as much as the legendary connection between the artist and her ready devotees. Amos, dressed in flowing layers of powder blue, set up shop on a bench center stage, her familiar Bosendorfer grand piano on one side and electric keyboards on the other. Backed by the endlessly bending notes of the jazz-inspired bassist Jon Evans and drummer Matt Chamberlain's warm, wending beats, she created cloudbursts of emotion out of clusters of notes - - an apt setting for words that read like pages from a journal. About half the set was devoted to music from the new "Scarlet's Walk," a concept album that chronicles a fictional woman's journey through post-9/11 America. The songs - including the first single " a sorta fairytale " - were absent of some of the album's lush, quirky arrangements but glowed nonetheless. So too did the handful of earlier gems Amos performed. Her stuttering reworking of "Silent All These Years," gave that song's frail beauty yet another layer of potency, and "Cornflake Girl " went from sultry to scalding by the sheer density of Amos's piano chords. A cover of Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat " was a perfect fit in and among the complicated terrain of Amos's set list - which spanned the vaudevillian snap of the new tune "Wednesday," obscure "Take to the Sky " (on which she slapped the piano for percussion), and the a cappella " wampum prayer." Maine native and rising singer-songwriter Howie Day - a veritable one-man symphony thanks to his mastery of on-the-spot tape loops - opened the show with thoughtful folk-pop from his debut album "Australia." Joan Anderman can be reached at anderman@globe.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:52:03 -0500 From: dances with virgos Subject: tori @ the river lounge in st. louis from the dent: matchbox 20 and Tori Amos in the River Lounge in St. Louis on December 3, 2002 Tori Amos and matchbox 20 will both be in the Sam Adams River Lounge on December 3, 2002 in St. Louis. This is sponsored by radio station WVRV 101.1 The River. Club101 members will have the first chance to win passes. You can sign up for Club101 at www.wvrv.com. Thanks to Jo for telling me. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:49:54 -0500 From: dances with virgos Subject: vh1 storytellers repeat (maybe) according to rockontv , vh1 will be rebroadcasting the tori episode of storytellers on december 2nd at 1:00 AM ET/PT. however, vh1.com does not mention this at all, even though their program schedule extends through early december. so, just something to keep an eye on... woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:53:07 -0500 From: dances with virgos Subject: free lance-star review Tori Amos heads on a Scarlet walk By ZAC MONDAY The Free Lance-Star YOUTH CORRESPONDENT Artist: Tori Amos CD name: "Scarlet's Walk" They are the places where we all have been, either bumbling around countrysides or racing through cityscapes. And they are places we all can find--that some say form the heart of all of us as Americans. It is from these places that Tori Amos' newest release comes, pulling up in a car from a dirt road to pick us up. These places are our nation's back roads, the invisible threads that connect to each city as we circle around the red, white and blue haze. Scarlet, an apparently fictional character who joins Tori on this "road trip" around our nation, gives us a different perspective, showing us different ways to experience what's always been around us. Scarlet connects people from the farmers to the McDonald's workers, in a circle of endless acts--all in songs like scenes in a play filled with 18 tracks, ones that help us form a history of her travels from coast to coast. Amos herself is aware of what forms America, having clearly mapped out a course to lead us through the different cultures of each state. From the background banjos to slumbering drums, Tori ties together a name for America. In the beginning, we see a womb of songs filled with relationships--not only between two people, but between many people who don't directly get to walk in each other's shoes. Here, they get the chance to see what's happening in areas they may never go. Scarlet, for instance, explores the fierce history of American Indians. In "Wompum Prayer," she sings, "Greed is the gift for the sons of the sons/Hear this prayer of the wompum." She also flies out of the East Coast in "I Can't See New York." The journey continues through "Virginia," and the "Amber Waves" of Alaska. She takes us through "Another Girl's Paradise" to "Don't Make Me Come to Vegas" in one swoop--a quick culture change to bring us into the truth, suffering and history that Lady Liberty begged us to learn. Amos' lyrics are a stylized blend of the exotic varieties of the land--and the whispers of the people who once laid their footsteps in our homes. Lyrics like "Beneath my raincoat, I have your photographs, and the sun on your face/I'm freezing the frame" are characteristic of the imagery here. Tori and Scarlet create a web for us to follow, a path across the watercolor blends of our nation. In "Scarlet's Walk" we get a sincere sense of dignity regained--a clear answer to what America is made of, and what we haven't noticed it can be. And if it takes someone like Tori Amos to expose us all to our home, then we better listen up--it's a long dirt path until we get to the end of this walk. ZAC MONDAY is a senior at Colonial Forge High School. Date published: Thu, 11/21/2002 ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V7 #279 *************************************