20 - Wednesday, February £5, 1989 -

music Bin

Lovett

North Shore News

has it

both ways

LOVETT IS larger; tango is stretched; defunct post-punk
singer and band yield somber retrospective.

Lyle Lovett And His Large Band,
Curb Records/MCA 1989

The countrified jazz cat con-
tinues to have it both ways. Lovett
made his mark last year with Pon-
tiac, a clever combination of sar-
donic lyrics and muitiple-music
persona.

MICHAEL
BECKER

music reviewer

The approach is consolidated
and pushed a little further with this
follow-up. Side A opens with The
Blues Walk, a swinging big band
instrumental workout which sets
the tone for the city slicker side.

The flip side features Lovett as
hayseed purist. The cuts include a
truly revolutionary cover version
of Tammy Wynette’s Stand By
Your Man. When sung by a man,
the song, which makes many
feminists foam from the mouth in
disgust, takes on a new interpreta-
tion of self-serving male
helplessness. Among the many
strong originals, the tragic / Mar-
ried Her Just Because She Looks
Like You is surely destined to
become a country classic.

Astor Piazzolla And The New

Tango Quintet — Tango: Zero

Hour, Pangaea Records/MCA
88

Tango plus Tragedy plus Com-
edy plus Kilombo (Whorehouse)
equals New Tango.

That's Piazzolla’s working for-
mula for sensual, bandoneon (but-
ton accordion)-fuelled aural
romance.

Tango ranks as the original dirty
dancing. The melodramatic music
behind the erotic moves is said to
have been born in the bordellos of
Buenos Aires. Decades ago the
Argentinian-born Piazzolla began
stretching the boundaries, injec-
ting classical and jazz elements in-
to the tango framework.

The resulting new tango is strik-
ingly provocative and emotionally
broaa. The classically-structured
Contrabajissimo shows off Piaz-
zolla’s compositional genius at a
deliciously dangerous height.

Joy Division — Substance 1977-
1980, PolyGram 1988

This retrospective compilation
neatly encapsulates the gloomy
streak of ruptured musings put out
by vocalist lan Curtis and friends.

Curtis’ suicidal death by hanging
in 1980 has ensured a place fo.
the band in the pop mausoleum of

LYLE LOVETT complements his
large hair with a large band on
his latest release.

legendary performers.

in retrospect, the knowledge of
the singer’s self-annihilation moves
the various death-centred songs
beyond the realm of staged
posturing and into a biographical
cycle of prophesy.

The band emerged from Man-
chester in 1977 and was part of a
musical wave designated as post-
punk. This collection shows the
musical thrust developing quickly
from primitive thrasher rock to
moribund brooding.

The brilliantly morose numbers,
like She’s Lost Control and Love
Will Tear Us Apart, became the
band’s trademark tunes. Caution:
There's enough industrial-strength
sadness between the grooves to
wipe the smile from the face of
any clown within hearing distance.

Teen actors sought for NV play

LOCAL PLAYWRIGHT Peter
O’Rourke of First Impressions
Theatre is looking for young peo-
ple between the ages of 13 and 17
to auditien for his controversial
play, Rites of Spring.

O’Rourke warns that parents
may be offended by the subject
matter of the play, which deals
with such issues as suicide,
homosexuality, abortion and
teenage pregnancy. Parents should
only send their children for an
audition if their children are well
adjusted, says O'Rourke.

“Rites of Spring is about
children growing up with today’s
values," says O'Rourke, “‘it
takes a real crack at the mora! and
social values of the Roman Catho-
tic Church.”

O'Rourke says he sees the play
as ‘“‘harmless and beautiful.’

Dance auditions

set in West Van

TWO TALENTED dancers are cus-
rently being sought by the Clare
Cunningham Dance Foundation.

Applicants must be prepared to
commit themselves to full-time
training, should be conscientious
and musically inclined. Auditions
are scheduled for March 5 at 11:30
a.m. Phone 987-6834 for informa-
tion or drop by the Clare Cunn-
ingham Dance Foundation at the
Cypress Room, West Vancouver
Recreation Centre, 780 W. 22nd
St., West Vancouver.

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THE STRING department of
School District 44 invites advanc-
ed string players (grades five to
seven) to audition for an honors
ensemble which meets at Argyle
high school every Tuesday trom
3:30 to 5 p.m. Elementary students
with sufficient training may ar-
tange an audition by phoning
Peter Van Doyen at 522-0876.
Phone 987-8741 for more informa-
tion.

Rites of Spring, directed by Mark
Czuma who works with the North
Shore’s Fine Arts Theatre School,
is part of the week-long North
Shore Theatre B.C. Festival, held

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at Presentation House in April.

Auditions will be held at
Capilano College, south campus,
room C303 on Feb. 16, 20 and 21
at 7 p.m.

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