The Hard Nut, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York – ‘Hilarious and touching’

The Hard Nut, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York – ‘Hilarious and touching’

“Nobody can listen to The Nutcracker any more,” Mark Morris once exclaimed, because “it’s used to get you to buy everything you can imagine.” His hilarious and deeply touching Hard Nut may return the magic to the score but it also revels in the junk the music drove us to consume.