| reality opera THE NEWS | EVER BREAKING! NEVER ENDING! |
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| JacobTV - music lyrics concept | Kristien Kerstens - videos | Jan Boiten - lighting videos | |||||
| Speech grooves, live music and video, remixed from international media footage, shine a critical spotlight on our world, the human condition, political leaders and cultural dynamics, involving freedom and democracy, war and peace, religion and politics, the economy and global warming, fame and infamy, catastrophy and morality. | |||||
| CHICAGO TRIBUNE: full review JacobTV is one of the most thought-provoking provocateurs working in today's new music. Also one of the most savagely entertaining. THE NEWS made me want to laugh and cry and get angry, sometimes at the same time. That's quite an accomplishment for any work of contemporary art. Stinging political parody, calculated to offend liberals and conservatives alike, is set alongside deadly-serious news clips in a popsy score, laced with saxophone riffs, the mellow ooze of blues and the twang of bluegrass. The two astonishing singers, soprano Josefien Stoppelenburg and alto Lori Cotler, crooned and soared and scat-sang with plenty of energy of their own. THE NEWS: outrageous, always exhilarating!
Stoppelenburg's clear, pure soprano soared in slow, long-lined melodies with an ironic nobility. Cotler sang in the rapid-fire clicks and clacks like a set of castanets, echoing the frantic speed and confusion of non-stop news. Flashy, occasionally confounding, THE NEWS brought operatic intensity to everyday reality. |
 FULCRUM POINT NEW MUSIC PROJECT Lori Cotler & Josefien Stoppelenburg - voices Stephen Burns - conductor PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: full review It takes a brave composer to sublimate his work to the steamroller of modern TV imagery. THE NEWS is a multimedia experience that splashes political hot potatoes across the stage - yet refuses to be cynical or polemical. It leaves the audience puzzled and delighted at the same time. THE NEWS is far more entertaining, innovative and provocative than anything on CNN or Fox News. Often amusing, sometimes horrifying or maddening but always enlightening and hypnotic. |
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