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...shining scene stealers (with a only a few notable exceptions: Mr. Geyer and Mr. Berman) are out gay men. Adam Feldman's smile brightens the entire stage while his intriguing wickedness provides the dramatic tension (Wilde: "wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.") Bart St. Clair easily wins the heart and earns the laughter and admiration of the audience. And Brian Martin's nosy, gleaming, gum smacking support buttresses the entire plot. I offer three snaps, air kisses, and a curtsy to these fine actors. To the rest of the cast...
GLENN GOULD WAS A GLORIOUS ECCENtric: a concert dropout; a reclusive, self- promoting ascetic; a pianist of Horowitzian technique who, with curious exceptions like Bizet and Sibelius, usually shunned the Romantics. Sony Classical's magnificent GLENN GOULD EDITION, to be completed in 1994, presents Gould's entire recorded oeuvre (much of it previously unreleased). His Haydn is superb; his Mozart and Beethoven range from riveting to risible; his moderns dazzle. Above all, sensibility and omnipotent fingers made him a peerless contrapuntalist, who could with uncanny rhythmic acuity articulate multiple lines and transmute complex musical thought, especially Bach's, into pure...
Bill Moyers avoids both extremes in a five-part PBS series premiering this week called Healing and the Mind and in a companion book that has already hit the best-seller lists. Level-headed, curious and skeptical, Moyers is the perfect tour guide. His question: Are our emotional lives entirely separate from our physical lives, or can one affect the other? To some degree, the latter is obviously true. Under mental stress, the heart rate climbs, and muscles tense. Conversely, breathing deeply and relaxing muscles can calm the mind...
...intrigued by artists who, instead of ensconcing themselves securely in one frame of cultural reference, work at the interface of several, then you can't help feeling curious about Wifredo Lam. Lam died 11 years ago, after a lifetime spent moving between Paris, New York City and his native Cuba. But his work has rarely been shown in the past 20 years, and he is often treated as a peripheral figure on the margins of Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism...
...place one needs to remember that the New York School of the '40s was not the exclusive pantheon of half a dozen Abstract Expressionist heroes that later critics and dealers made it seem. It was open and eclectic, perfused with Surrealist influence and much more curious about other cultures -- particularly those of Latin America -- than it would be 25 years later. Lam had a strong common interest with American painters who became his friends, such as Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell: namely a fascination with totemism and the imagery of ritual...