Yes, that John Adams series does look good from what I see in the ads.
Well, the History Channel did not cut any critical content from The Last Temptation. I'm impressed. (Though they tend to run way too many commercials) Watching it every Easter is a bit of a tradition with me, it is funny, a group of us used to go the alternative theatre (having imbibed a particular dielthylamide) every Easter Sunday Morning to watch The Last Temptation of Christ in an appropriately existential state of mind.
I'm going to have "A Different Drum" and "With This Love" from the soundtrack stuck in my head now until I dig out the CD and play it at 11 a few times. Such powerful music.
Unsurprisingly, it was run on
Ann Medina's "History on Film" (Ann is an old CBC vet, described as ubiquitous) - what I did learn though, is that the author:
Nikos Kazantzakis has a number of infuential and impressive works. I'm most curious about his novel entitled Saint Francis. If I have a patron... I've heard about his most popular work "Zorba the Greek" many times, but have never read it, I think I should.
Ann also mentioned a film she saw called "He Who Must Die", that "blew her away". If it blew the mind of Ann Medina, then I too must see it. I trust the CBC as a cultural guide, even though this is the History Channel I'm talking about; Ann will always be CBC. You can take the girl out of the CBC but you can't take the CBC out of the girl...
I found my Passion CD! I'm off to crank track 7: "A Different Drum". Some of the most expressive vocalisations I have ever heard. I believe this work was hugely influential on Peter's subsequent works and the congealment (sorry, I cannot think of exactly the right word) of Real World Records. A lot of artists owe gratitude to the path that soundtrack set Peter on.