Tap dance kid
An old article about Savion Glover.
And an excerpt from a January 6, 2005 New York Times review of "Classical Savion," the show I saw last night:
Mr. Glover performs virtually nonstop for two hours, mostly with an ensemble of classical musicians conducted by Robert Sadin but also with a jazz group, the Otherz, whose improvisations occasionally get some classical music input.
Acting as the great unifier, Mr. Glover suggests that whatever the idiom it's all music. Well, yes, but one doesn't usually hear Bach almost drowned out by a big percussive beat.
At the other extreme, the opening number to four excerpts from Vivaldi's ''Four Seasons'' is astounding. The expected virtuosic display from Mr. Glover is as nuanced as ever, but it is also a piece of live musical analysis. What you hear, as you usually don't in the concert hall, is the rhythmic structure in Vivaldi that Mr. Glover's tap rhythms offer both in dialogue with the music and as parallel annotation.
This is great dancing with great musicality. Mr. Sadin, whose warm collaborative spirit is a big part of the evening, felt impelled halfway through the show to tell the audience: ''There are very few musicians who understand music so well as Savion. He absorbs the music; he knows all the inner parts.''
Current music: Blackalicious, "World of Vibrations"
And an excerpt from a January 6, 2005 New York Times review of "Classical Savion," the show I saw last night:
Mr. Glover performs virtually nonstop for two hours, mostly with an ensemble of classical musicians conducted by Robert Sadin but also with a jazz group, the Otherz, whose improvisations occasionally get some classical music input.
Acting as the great unifier, Mr. Glover suggests that whatever the idiom it's all music. Well, yes, but one doesn't usually hear Bach almost drowned out by a big percussive beat.
At the other extreme, the opening number to four excerpts from Vivaldi's ''Four Seasons'' is astounding. The expected virtuosic display from Mr. Glover is as nuanced as ever, but it is also a piece of live musical analysis. What you hear, as you usually don't in the concert hall, is the rhythmic structure in Vivaldi that Mr. Glover's tap rhythms offer both in dialogue with the music and as parallel annotation.
This is great dancing with great musicality. Mr. Sadin, whose warm collaborative spirit is a big part of the evening, felt impelled halfway through the show to tell the audience: ''There are very few musicians who understand music so well as Savion. He absorbs the music; he knows all the inner parts.''
Current music: Blackalicious, "World of Vibrations"
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