At LACMA‘s first Monday Evening Concert, our wondrously off-the-wall EAR Unit did music with film, ending with Jeff Rona’s exceptional new score for that 1928 silent surrealist classic, James Sibley Watson Jr.‘s The Fall of the House of Usher, music that poked with high imagination into the angles and corners of that famous old cult favorite. At Royce Hall a week later, the Philip Glass Ensemble played his music for several short films, draining the air out of the hall with sounds of crushing diatonic sameness, which some people -- present company excluded -- seem to think they can tell from one another. This was the first program in a week of Glass-blown film. I did like the final work, Godfrey Reggio’s Anima Mundi, with its neat-o animal shots, but there was nothing there that Disney‘s Living Desert hadn’t accomplished with square-dancing scorpions in 1953, when Glass was still waiting tables.
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