Tom Allen
STORYTELLER, CONCERT HOST,
AUTHOR, MUSICIAN, BROADCASTER
[The Missing Pages] is an absolutely fascinating story.
…entertaining, theatrical, musically brilliant at times and even a little risque.
Weaving stories, music and audience participation, the show traces American avant-garde composer and thinker John Cage’s 1965 trip to Emma Lake, Saskatchewan, when he went into the woods to hunt for mushrooms and failed to return for 15 hours.
“…finely crafted and moving introductions… Beautifully placed, each heightened the emotional substance of the work it preceded.”
Fundamentally, he’s a storyteller, finding truth and folly in subjects as diverse as Beethoven and beer league hockey.
…a perfect combination of understatement and feeling. All in all it was as close to ideal a production that this listener has encountered.
STORYTELLER, CONCERT HOST,
AUTHOR, MUSICIAN, BROADCASTER