John Cassavetes: Five Films (Criterion Collection)John Cassavetes was a genius, a visionary, and the progenitor of American independent film, but that doesn't begin to get at the generosity of his art. A former theater actor fascinated by the power of improvisation, Cassavetes brought his search for truth in performance to the screen. The five films in this collection all of which the director maintained total control over by financing them himself and making them outside the studio system are

Lightning (Feat

fresh and authentic that transcends the Great Ladies of Song in both tribute and originality

Krigul has chosen his texts from the New Testament

Thomas Georgi - Stockholm Sonatas 2

as well as other pieces inspired by non-Western cultures

Wayne Cochran - The Bigger The Pompadour

between Bach and Ives

The group backing Smulyan and Chinese include Gary Versace on piano and accordion

during the following year he wrote a trio of sonatas published in 1802 as Op

'the initial swirling becomes a whirlwind' (J

including BiC Fizzle

which is then swept away by the powerful setting of the word "light" sung by the chorus