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be advised to not miss “Conlon Nancarrow: Virtuoso of the Player Piano,” a documentary about the musical genius and Texarkana native. The film — made by University of Arkansas professor and composer James Greeson — airs at 7 p.m. Thursday on AETN. Nancarrow is hardly a household name, unless yours was the (very) odd household whose stereo played a steady rotation of Cage, Cowell, Ligeti and the like. But his music, much of it insanely fast and rhythmically complex, is actually nowhere near as intimidatingly out-there as the work of many of his 20th century contemporaries. Stockhausen or Xenakis it is not. Check out “Study for Player Piano No. 3a-e” for something that sounds like Jelly Roll Morton played at 1,078 RPM. Oh, and Nancarrow also: was a committed Communist, fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War, lived most of his life in Mexico as a political exile and was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. The film was screened at this year’s Little Rock Film Festival. Times contributor Natalie Elliott noted that “the documentary does have a little structural trouble, jumping around achronologically at times in a fairly befuddling way, but the expert interviews, archival footage, and deconstruction of Nancarrow’s pieces are all very informative and user-friendly.” Definitely one to set the DVR for.
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RADAR ONLINE REPORTED LAST WEEK THAT Jonesboro native Wes
Bentley was denied entry to Canada based on a four-year-old drug conviction. The actor was scheduled for press events promoting his latest film, “The Time Being,” at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film also stars Frank Langella. Radar quoted an anonymous source: “Wes really wanted to go to the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of his movie and had his team contact the head of TIFF to try and pull some strings with the government.” Bentley was arrested in 2008 on a charge of heroin possession, to which he pleaded guilty. Apparently our neighbors to the north are super uptight about past drug convictions.
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