I couldn't find a thread for this programme so here it is. Did anyone listen to Kevin Puts' The Hours? Apparently it's very popular in New York.
I tried to give it a fair hearing but had to give up . I can't say how it looks on stage; but the music alone sounded very poor to me, derivative of John Adams and Copland, at most the sort of music one wouldn't mind hearing in the background of a TV drama. I had not previously come across this composer.
Maybe it should have been left as a film, which I did find worth seeing (once).
I tried to give it a fair hearing but had to give up . I can't say how it looks on stage; but the music alone sounded very poor to me, derivative of John Adams and Copland, at most the sort of music one wouldn't mind hearing in the background of a TV drama. I had not previously come across this composer.
Maybe it should have been left as a film, which I did find worth seeing (once).
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