Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Review: Kairy Koshoeva and the Owen/Cox Dance Group- Polsky Theatre


I used to think about love, mortality and God as I listened to the Goldberg Variations.  Not anymore.  A concert at Polsky Theatre on Monday may have forever altered the associations I'll make when I hear Bach's famous work.  A performance by the Owen/Cox Dance Group accompanied Kairy Koshoeva as she played the variations in its entirety.  Jennifer Owen's creative choreography managed to make the composition seem like a natural modern dance soundtrack.  The sole flaw occurred at the conclusion of a few segments as Koshoeva's otherwise stellar playing was sullied by the necessity of monitoring the readiness of the dancers.  The free performance served as a preview of a June 8 concert at White Recital Hall.


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I did not expect much of Scotty McCreery at the Uptown Theater on Saturday.  The kid impressed me.  Here's my review.

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Strange Music continues to crank out videos.  Here are the moving pictures for Ces Cru's "When Worlds Collide".

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I've long suggested that Mac Lethal could be a successful television or radio personality.  Here's proof.

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Eccentric Soul: The Dynamic Label is the latest reissue from the Numero Group.

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Coming to the Stiefel Theatre in Salina, Kansas: the Beach Boys, Cheap Trick, Joan Baez, Ian Anderson and Boz Scaggs.

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Here's the latest dispatch from Earl Sweatshirt.

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Kansas City Click: Freedy Johnston plays the Czar Bar on Tuesday.  I'm not sure if he's willing to play "Trying To Tell You I Don't Know" anymore.

DJ Abilities appears at the Czar Bar on Wednesday.  (R.I.P. Eyedea.)

Sam Baker performs at a house concert on Thursday.

(Original image by There Stands the Glass.)

2 comments:

bigsteveno said...

Freedy Johnston actually opened the show with "Trying To Tell You I Don't Know." Great opener, and then "Bad Reputation" second. He let up a little after that and played a bunch of new song. I think he said he has a new album already recorded. The set also included "The Mortician's Daughter," "This Perfect World," "Don't Fall In Love With A Lonely Girl, and "On the Way Out." My first time in the Czar Bar, and I picked a perfect night to check it out.

Happy In Bag said...

Dang! Thanks for the report. I had tough choices to make that night. My selection was clearly inferior to yours.