Except for the 12-tone language, these pieces truly evoke their sources.
Instead just 3 of the work's 10 songs were presented, songs that truly evoke a cantata by setting Whitman's words for long stretches with close-knit, pungent block harmonies for three singers, performed here by Ms. Bird, Mr. Appleby and Mr. Garland, with Mr. Barrett at the piano.
In the original version, Spaceman Came Down's tale of racial equality is made all the more cripplingly embarrassing for his colleagues by the unexpectedly loud volume of his vocals, a method he's adopted to truly evoke the song's vehemently political message.
However he adds: "In marked contrast to Grindhouse, which seemed a tad too slick and polished to truly evoke the flavour of seedy 1970s exploitation fare, Machete has the appropriate look and feel of a scrappy, penny-pinched indie aimed at drive-ins and inner-city theatres".
"Going to market" remains one of the best ways to see these five fetching cities truly evoke a bygone era, with old world traditions that go as far back as the Middle Ages: When: 22 November to 23 December What to buy: Räuchermännchen (wooden dolls complete with smoking pipe), nutcrackers, children's toys and well-priced charity products whose proceeds go to the needy.
Above all, the show delivers genuine musical highs, thanks to Alan Menken's uncanny ability to write songs that truly evoke the 1970s.
And this watershed moment in our culture brings us the unprecedented opportunity to truly evoke change if we all agree that this reality is a problematic one.
But while deeply, if temporarily, compelling and preoccupying, such calamities on a large scale tend to reach us at a profound emotional level -- to truly evoke our passions -- only when they wear a face.
In ways too numerous to count and in realms too profound to truly evoke, this decade has grimly underscored that -- notwithstanding theoretical claims to the contrary -- it matters greatly who is president.
