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| Last Edit: Delvino 08:50 pm EDT 05/03/24 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 08:41 pm EDT 05/03/24 | |
| In reply to: re: The Lempicka score, recommended to me; what am I missing? - Singapore/Fling 05:16 pm EDT 05/03/24 | |
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| For what it's worth, nothing in my OP objected to lyric content, certainly not with sociopolitical implications; if anything, I have an ear tuned to relevance, not the opposite. I have listened to four songs, concentrating on "Woman Is," and don't find the score a compelling musicalization of this character. Responses to theater songs are notoriously personal. My reaction to the attenuated bombast - the handwringing seems to go on forever - reminded me of earlier feelings about, say, Wildhorn, to cite a composer from earlier decades who generated similar debate. But give me woke - hey, Ragtime is woke as hell ("Back to Before," a potent feminist revelation never fails to wring tears) - but via a synergy of passion and tuneful expression of the human condition, its ineffable secrets released only through stirring song. From the reviews, it seems my response this piece isn't an outlier. |
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| re: The Lempicka score, recommended to me; what am I missing? | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 10:15 pm EDT 05/03/24 | |
| In reply to: re: The Lempicka score, recommended to me; what am I missing? - Delvino 08:41 pm EDT 05/03/24 | |
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| I love what I’ve heard of the score - “Beauty” is an absolute knock out that should have been what they used to sell the show - but I think it’s fair to say that this portion of the thread isn’t really in conversation with your initial post, but rather dealing with the tired trope of “woke is bad”. | |
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