Tom Stoppard
Biding Our Time: Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
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Tom Stoppard’s “The Hard Problem” At Lincoln Theatre Mitzi E. Newhouse, November 10th, 2018, Reviewed
“The Hard Part” is a disappointment the way that Let It Be is a disappointment.
My Top 18 Albums Of 2013: # 10 Darkside – Tom Stoppard And Pink Floyd
The album is here because the tracks can function as songs, without really knowing what’s happening, just as separate songs, great songs with great words, lots of jukes. “There is no plane, no pilot, it is a thought experiment…” Perhaps. but one with a heart.
That Was The Week Of November 25th, 2013, That Was
He only performed two songs but the great vocalese Jon Hendricks, at the age of 92, came onto Van Morrison’s stage at the Theater At Madison Square Garden, and stole the show from under his nose
Best Albums Through November 30th, 2013
Darkside – Tom Stoppard And Pink Floyd – A radio play that works as a record album that works as a radio with Stoppards rat-a-tat dialogue and concise storytelling. No, it isn’t “The Invention Of Love” but then neither is “The Coast Of Utopia”.
Best Songs Through November 30th, 2013
Love Is Love – Hello Steve Reich James Murphy for DFA Remix – David Bowie – Sure, he’s using an idea from Reich, but the way the clapping becomes the beat blows me away every time
Winner And Loser Week Of 11-25-13: Tom Stoppard And Ian Watkins
Winner – Tom Stoppard – One of the most thrilling musical-theatrical experiences of the year has been the great Czech-English Playwright’s comedy about moral ethics inspired by Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon, Darkside.
rock nyc Top 10 Songs Week Of 11-25-13
If Hopsin was a little better he would be major, when he is in the mood, as he is on this sideswipe at current rappers, he is very aggressively funny.
Hear Ye On Spotify: What rock nyc is listening to 11-30-13
Life Round Here – James Blake And Chance The Rapper – Haunting and beautiful, but of course that comes on the James Blake label, what doesb’t is Chance The Rapper, atonal rap so weird and in place – A-
Tom Stoppard's "Darkside" Reviewed
“Who’s to say he didn’t save a serial killer? Or a mad bomber on a date with destiny? Or just people who fuck you up normally? Geography teachers or ticket inspectors or boyfriends who shag your best friend? People who write the small print, see over the penalties? People who go ‘I’m telling you for your own good’ and ‘can’t you read we’re closed’?”
Hear Ye On Spotify: what rock nyc is listening to 11-29-13
The problem here is much the same as the problem on the entire album: the songs aren’t there. Oh the singing is powerful and felt, the instrumentation first rate, the atitude a poerfect mesh of here and now and then, but the song can’t sell it – B-