![]() ![]() What's one more night with plant-based rock songs and flutes?īacked by a screen loaded with fast-moving landscapes and GMO-related graphics, Anderson and his quartet (highest marks to thick-as-a-brick organist John O'Hara) interacted with filmed singer-characters portraying young Tull and a damsel of the woods, who turned into a woman in a pantsuit (is this what the city does to a lass?) in the opera's second act. There were Spinal Tap-ish moments like the horror rock-ist "Fruits of Frankenfield." Then again, Anderson aficionados have forever watched their longtime hero wear codpieces and tell long, literarily lyrical, interrelated stories, such as those that fill conceptual LPs like Minstrel in the Gallery. This might not seem like every rock fan's fantasy of a weekend excursion. The overall text of the new program - meant to flesh out Tull hits and original Opera Anderson bits - concentrated itself in an imagined present-day dialogue: What if the real-life Jethro Tull were working now? Playing Saturday at the Academy of Music, this wasn't a reunion of Anderson's progressive-blues band, wasn't a theater piece, and wasn't some historically based lesson plan on tilling and seeding the land. Despite recently retiring the Jethro Tull brand, British baritone singer-flutist Ian Anderson has conjured his onetime band's namesake - an 18th-century English inventor-agriculturalist who modernized farming - for something new, pretentious, yet weirdly winning, in Jethro Tull: The Rock Opera. ![]()
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