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k.d. lang Takes Lincoln Center by Storm |
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by Bruce-Michael Gelbert | >> see bio |
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| k.d. lang - photo byJeri Heiden |
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On February 26, openly lesbian Canadian singer-songwriter k.d. lang, her voice strong and penetrating, began a three-night run in Lincoln Center's Allen Room at Rose Hall, at the Time Warner Building and, drawing by turns on the introspective songs on "watershed," her new Nonesuch CD, and on her older, familiar repertory of love songs and country songs, was nothing less than sensational. Handsomely garbed and comfortably barefoot, lang was assisted by a mostly-new band made up of Grecco Buratto, on guitar and back-up vocals; Joshua Grange, on pedal steel guitar and vocals; Daniel Clarke, on keyboards and vocals; Ian Walker, on bass and vocals; and Danny Frankel, with whom she has recorded, on percussion. One of Clarke's instruments was the swinging organ, which inspired lang to quip, "everyone needs one," and imagine a billing as "k.d. lang and the swinging organs."
lang opened and closed with "watershed" selections. In "upstream," she probed the problems of going against the grain, in "thread," ambiguously limned a love that either might have been or hasn't turned out quite as expected. She sang bleakly of "frozen lovers" and "cold dark places," but concluded, optimistically, "i dream of spring" and, in a rocking country melody, anticipated "coming home." Love, she found, can be double-edged, can "make you happy ... make you smile," or "drive you crazy ... once in awhile." "sunday" is a special day, eagerly awaited, on which to be, once more, "naked in your room." She proposed questions and answers in "close your eyes," waxed self-critical in "flame of the uninspired," accompanied herself on banjo-which she styled, tongue-in-cheek, her "chick magnet"--in a cautionary tale warning, "(never be a) jealous dog," and sent us off into the night with "shadow and the frame," which she described as "a little existentialist lullaby."
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| Dustin O'Halloran - courtesy of dustinohalloran.com |
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lang paid tribute to three of her favorite contemporary songwriters, with "Helpless," nostalgic and lovesick, by Neil Young, and inspirational songs "The Valley," by Jane Siberry, and "Hallelujah," by Leonard Cohen. lang's idol is Patsy Cline and her light-hearted look at those post-coital "(little) Smoke Rings (I love)" could almost be imagined coming from Cline. She confided in the audience that she's riding for a fall in rangy country-western love song "Western Stars" and, working the room, shared a euphoric hunger in her popular "Constant Craving" and seduced us all anew.
Pianist Dustin O'Halloran opened for lang with three of his piano pieces, the first two putting the listener in mind, with moody tone painting, now of French Impressionists like Satie and Debussy, then of the more recent minimalists and their insistent rhythmic repetitions, with the last, gently lulling.
lang and O'Halloran appear again at the Allen Room, on Broadway at 60th Street, on February 27 and 28 at 8:30 p.m. For any tickets, at $50, 75, 100 or 150, which remain, call CenterCharge at 212/721-6500, go to www.lincolncenter.org, or visit the Jazz at Lincoln Center box office, in the Time Warner Building, or the Avery Fisher Hall box office, at Broadway and 65th Street.
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