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entertainments of yesterday
Feb. 18th, 2015 09:05 pm Tuesday is half-price movie day at the Apple Cinema in Fresh Pond. A number of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
farwing's tumblr friends seemed rapturous about "Jupiter Ascending" so I went to see it, at a matinee. I was the oldest person in the audience, but two middle-school aged boys sat with their mom. There is a lot to like - the anti-gravity boots, all of the bee-related plot points and set decoration, the down-to-earth (metaphorically speaking) main character, Channing Tatum with Vulcanesque ears, other stuff. I didn't care much for the overall storyline, but I might not have been the intended audience. I wonder whether I was the only person who thought of "Triplets of Belleville." I also wonder about the deliberate points the writers were making about what happens to people who immigrate illegally to the US, to explain why some really smart women were living crammed into an overcrowded house, working as a cleaning crew, twenty years or so after arriving in a cargo container. Not that really smart women shouldn't become house cleaners if they want to, but it didn't seem that they were having fun.
A while back, I followed up on a forwarded email and joined a one-shot chorus to sing two Sacred Harp songs as part of an eclectic (to put it mildly) tribute to Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutuem. Last night was the concert. Only a little of Hildegard's actual music was there, but everything else was supposed to at least someone's free-association with the Ordo. We liked some of it, found some of it tedious or pretentious, but the audience in general was happy with it, including one of my old Rounder friends, who pointed out that it *was* put on by the Contemporary Improvisation department. The NEC students involved all seemed to be good singers and instrumentalists, sometimes composers as well, and I started worrying about their employment prospects. We made jokes on the way home about telling your parents you wanted to spend four years and tens of thousands of dollars majoring in Comtemporary Improv. I'll try to send positive thoughts their way.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2015/02/15/nec-sees-virtue-eclecticism-hildegard-adaptation/87nMlVMWJT0O0O31So1X2O/story.html
farwing's tumblr friends seemed rapturous about "Jupiter Ascending" so I went to see it, at a matinee. I was the oldest person in the audience, but two middle-school aged boys sat with their mom. There is a lot to like - the anti-gravity boots, all of the bee-related plot points and set decoration, the down-to-earth (metaphorically speaking) main character, Channing Tatum with Vulcanesque ears, other stuff. I didn't care much for the overall storyline, but I might not have been the intended audience. I wonder whether I was the only person who thought of "Triplets of Belleville." I also wonder about the deliberate points the writers were making about what happens to people who immigrate illegally to the US, to explain why some really smart women were living crammed into an overcrowded house, working as a cleaning crew, twenty years or so after arriving in a cargo container. Not that really smart women shouldn't become house cleaners if they want to, but it didn't seem that they were having fun. A while back, I followed up on a forwarded email and joined a one-shot chorus to sing two Sacred Harp songs as part of an eclectic (to put it mildly) tribute to Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutuem. Last night was the concert. Only a little of Hildegard's actual music was there, but everything else was supposed to at least someone's free-association with the Ordo. We liked some of it, found some of it tedious or pretentious, but the audience in general was happy with it, including one of my old Rounder friends, who pointed out that it *was* put on by the Contemporary Improvisation department. The NEC students involved all seemed to be good singers and instrumentalists, sometimes composers as well, and I started worrying about their employment prospects. We made jokes on the way home about telling your parents you wanted to spend four years and tens of thousands of dollars majoring in Comtemporary Improv. I'll try to send positive thoughts their way.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2015/02/15/nec-sees-virtue-eclecticism-hildegard-adaptation/87nMlVMWJT0O0O31So1X2O/story.html
