Every year, the studios try hard to push their contenders onto the list of
talked about performers and it can sometimes work.
He's spent the last four years since Sleepwalk With Me, his previous film, crafting a
movie about performers in New York trying to grapple with the unlikely success of one of their peers.
He reminded me that a few years back there had been a
hubbub about performers lip - synching and using recorded music in concert.
Herzog embodies the
cliche about the performer who's so charismatic that he could read aloud from the phone book and still be mesmerizing.
Another entry in the popular documentary
subgenre about performers and performances (exemplified by «Searching for Sugar Man» last year), this again focuses on a figure of modest fame (1990s female punk pioneer Kathleen Hanna and her band Bikini Kill).
Wasting a cast that has accumulated a combined 3 Oscars and another 4 nominations is a trick in itself, but aside from Harrelson's natural charm,
nothing about the performers impresses.
Free; reservations required Michael Conforti
Pavilion ABOUT THE PERFORMERS David Fulmer, conductor, is a leader in his generation of composer - performers.
For example, if you point the camera at a concert venue marquee, Google Assistant can tell you
more about the performer, as well as play music, help you buy tickets to the show, and add it to your calendar, all within a single app.
«These data demonstrate how critical factors outside the notes themselves, like the information you have
about a performer (explicitly in the form of a prime or implicitly in the form of positioning on stage at Carnegie Hall or on a subway platform) can transform what you are able to hear and how you evaluate a musical performance.»
GSW: What can you tell
us about the performers, credited as violinist Aya Yoda, guitarist Wanogen, bass player Hiroki Ohno and Beklee College of Music graduate, drummer Kiyotaka Takiyama?