If you’ve never seen a documentary on John Lennon, this will do, though there seems to be only one revelation here that propelled the filmmakers to put Lennon’s last years on screen again: Apparently Nixon involved himself in an effort to deport John.
At Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery. Shows through October 18.
A woman leans into the mirror in a restroom. She applies eyeliner, concentrating on the few millimeters of skin at the base of her eyelashes; her face is utterly rapt, and she is more focused than she has been all day. We move past such scenes quickly because we don’t want to be caught staring.
Opera Santa Barbara has undertaken a unique service to the community with its new tradition of producing fall premieres in anticipation of its single-composer festivals in February. They are big, gorgeous, greatest-hits packages, and this one, a life of Giuseppe Verdi, was every bit as fascinating and satisfying as last year’s tribute to Puccini.
Hermanos doesn’t just mean ‘brothers’; it is gender neutral,” said Flamenco Arts Festival President Alberto Pizano in his introduction to Dos Hermanos, the performance by brother and sister, and flamenco innovators, Israel and Pastora Galv¡n.
I took my seat beneath dimming lights as Savion Glover hurried onstage in an unbuttoned dress shirt with dangling cuffs. Glover’s tousled look was, I think, intentional. The gangly-limbed, baby-faced dancer has been hoofing for a quarter century
Sometimes a story’s desire to be told is an undeniable force of nature. No matter how heavy the weight of the years, some stories simply shake off the cobwebs and return to shine brightly and captivate the modern age.
MUSICAL GASOLINE: The opening concert of the UCSB music department’s fall season will star guest artists Duo Nuovo (Terry Rhodes, soprano and Ellen Williams, mezzo-soprano), with pianist/composer Benton Hess and cellist Stephen Reis in supporting roles. Bearing the somewhat deceptively austere title, 20th Century American Music, the concert takes place at 8 p.m. on Saturday, October 7, in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall at UCSB.
GUITARLINGTON NEWS: Heads are still spinning and hearts are still warm from last week’s Arlington visitation of the titanic Jeff Beck. On that night, Beck-62 and rocking better, or more musically, than ever-seemed like the greatest electric guitarist on earth, not because of gymnastic overkill…
BLESSED UNION: While United by Sound may most easily be classified as electronica, the label does the band a disservice in that it implies something less organic and substantial than what the San Francisco duo offers.
Entering the fifth century of his fame, Shakespeare enthralls and energizes like no other author. How many restless days and nights have been consumed in avid pursuit of his elusive meanings? How many readers and actors have yearned and strived to make Shakespeare’s words their own?
