ARTICLE: “‘Orchestrion’ entertains; raises host of questions” (Pat Metheny)
Here’s my review of Pat Metheny’s one-man, multi-machine show at Great Barrington’s Mahaiwe Theatre on Sunday night; it’s published in today’s Berkshire Eagle.
“It would be easy to say the elements of the orchestrion itself were a pleasure to watch, many of them stacked up in a junkyard jumble at the rear of the stage in a piece of mad hatter sculpture that simultaneously recalled the Grateful Dead’s mid-1970’s “wall of sound,” a Fritz Lang futuristic fantasy, and a steampunk bachelor’s hidden attic opus.”
