I asked him how he connected with Leacock; the story he told the fortunate audience is, in substance, the one he wrote here, in 2001, and which concludes, Finally, in 1960, with the camera hefted by Richard Leacock and the tape recorder carried by me, we set out to tell the story of a young man who wanted to be President.
By Ian Crouch May 14, 2010 A small, fortunate audience assembled on the steps of Grant's Tomb last night for Compagnia de' Colombari's penultimate performance of "More Or Less I Am," an hour of spoken word, song, dance, and music based on Walt Whitman's 1855 poem "Song of Myself".
This apocalyptic, three-hour western, which will eventually play for fortunate audiences at a handful of theaters around the country, is a boys' book of adventure with extraordinarily bloody consequences.
We've been fortunate that the audience that's found us seems to enjoy the stories we've told and the issues we've tried to address.
We've been fortunate to win Audience Favorite awards at mainstream festivals in Nashville, Palm Springs and Los Angeles, and everywhere we've been, from Havana, Cuba, to Honolulu, our message has resonated the universal power and ultimate triumph of love, and the message that it is love that makes a family.
Happily for audiences fortunate enough to make their way to the New Victory Theater before Sunday, the comic side of Mr. Thiérrée's pedigree prevails, even if a bit of Freud, Kafka, Dada and MoMA pop up now and again.
I rather think all the underage audience are fortunate kids (and they'd have to be very fortunate indeed, considering the ticket prices for this event) who were blessed with music interest and lessons from a young age.
"It's a monument to the history of this culture" says Giovanazzi. "We've been really fortunate to cultivate an audience that's not just people who listen to industrial music.
I'm not suggesting that being an opera star at the Met is easy, but our audiences are fortunate that there are so many accomplished opera singers who understand that singing and acting go hand in hand.
His return to feature filmmaking, after more than a decade away from it, is one of the most important things to happen in the world of movies in quite a while, and New York audiences are fortunate to have him here to discuss his art.
Australian audiences are fortunate to experience the songs in a live setting during his current tour, and Herbert kindly took some time out to discuss the record and his life's work at the new frontiers of sound.
