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Laurie Anderson: Amelia review – return flight with aviation pioneer is a long haul
The US musician’s reboot of a 2000 work about Amelia Earhart is frustratingly slow to take off
In 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart went missing during her her solo journey around the world, her fame so great that her disappearance would’ve coloured the childhood of Laurie Anderson, born 10 years later. Updating a piece first performed 24 years ago, Amelia attempts to revivify this primordial tale of human flight, compressing diaries, telegrams and biographies into a narrative orchestral song cycle, circling around the missing adventurer’s last six weeks in the sky. Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno concoct agreeable tension between the suite’s electronic and analogue elements, and occasional ornamental support from Anohni is welcome.
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