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Not Your Ordinary Symphony |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: Lawrence O'Toole |
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The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 2,118 Words, 11,818 Characters |
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The tenth annual New Music America series, where the audience is urged to expect nothing but the unexpected, opened in November at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (and various participating locations around Manhattan and Queens) with an appropriate "difference." Audiences were shunted between three theaters in the BAM complex in one evening to see and hear a triple bill of Kip Hanrahan's Look, the Moon, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy performing 23 Facts in 2 Acts, and David Lynch's and Angelo Badalamenti's Industrial Symphony #1.
Now, to these eager ears, the main event promised to be the latter. And it definitely was. David Lunch may be the most interesting and intriguing director working in this country right now, and Blue Velvet (which won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Film of 1986) was the most wildly innovative movie to make it to the screen during the last decade. It was for Blue Velvet that Angelo Badalamenti wrote the score and he has also composed music for Lynch's current TV series, Twin Peaks.
Industrial Symphony #1 begins, not unexpectedly, with a film clip of Nicholas Cage and Laura Dern (who both appear in Lynch's up...
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...e - and sometimes wild - talents it does. What other festival, for example, would offer a performance by Moondog?
Moondog?
Moondog is a "character" well-known to New Yorkers who saw him, in the 1960s, standing at Sixth Avenue and Fifty-fourth Street dressed as a Viking. It wasn't always music that was being purveyed in the new Music America series. Sometimes it was attitude, too.
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