

Jeff Spevak is WXXI’s Arts & Life editor and reporter.Download Dream Theater: Ultimate Minus One (Drum Trax) PDF Tickets to each event are available at the web site, by calling (585) 957-9837, or at the venue one hour before the start of the show if they are still available. Go to “Find a Show,” create a list of events by date, venue and genres, then hit the “Filter” button. The complete festival schedule is available at. After suffering two heart attacks, the 50-year-old Serling died at Rochester’s Strong Memorial Hospital in 1975 while undergoing bypass surgery, and is buried in Lake View Cemetery in Interlaken. A Syracuse native, he grew up in Binghamton. So death is a big theme here, alongside the strong Western New York connection to Serling’s story. Steve Piper and Tom Whitmore of Watkins & the Rapiers play a song as part of Rochester fringe Festival's "Singing Serling" on Sept.Spoiler alert: he’s found dead on his couch. “One for The Angels” is a noble deal with the devil, “Perchance to Dream” is the story of a man who’s afraid to fall asleep, lest he die. In Regan’s hands, “Time Enough to Last” is only a title that launches the story of a relationship, and “time slipping away.”įor Piper, a train passenger longs for peace, and finds it in a town called “Willoughby.” Except - and here’s the time-travel thing again - it’s the Willoughby of 1888, and to get there he’s jumped from the train to his death. Time enough to read! Of course, in typical Serling irony, Meredith stumbles on the steps of the shattered library, and breaks his eyeglasses. An explosion shakes the vault, and Meredith’s character emerges to find the city has been destroyed by a hydrogen bomb. Regan is even less indebted to Serling in “Time Enough to Last.” It’s one of the most-famous episodes of “The Twilight Zone,” the story of a bookworm bank teller played by Burgess Meredith, who retreats into the bank vault on his lunch break for some undisturbed time to read. Denton on Doomsday,” he takes the story of a Wild West gunslinger, and adds what seems to be the man putting himself in the position of getting shot because of his remorse over killing a 16-year-old kid. It was Scott Regan’s two songs that departed most from the specific episodes that he chose.
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And the band throws in a nice movie fanfare at the end of “The 16-Millimeter Shrine.” Like “Static,” that story plays with time as well. The music tells the story again with the bucolic opening and seemingly happy family in “The Bewitching Pool.” “But behind that façade their happiness is a fraud,” Kerry Regan sings, as two children flee their divorcing parents in a magical way. Watkins made this one work with its big-band arrangement. The episode “Static” is a typical Serling trope, with an element of time travel: An elderly man’s radio is broadcasting old Tommy Dorsey music, which transports him back to his old girlfriend, to when they were young. “Where is Everybody?” is about humanity caught in an experiment on social deprivation. “The After Hours” tells of a woman who becomes a store mannequin. Some of Watkins’ songs stayed close to the source material. Steve Piper of Watkins & the Rapiers sings his original songs inspired by "The Twilight Zone" on Sept.And a video screen flashing “Twilight Zone” trivia. With images from the relevant “Twilight Zone” episodes taped to the walls.

The band, perhaps best known for its frequent gigs at The Little Café, dresses up for special occasions. And while drummer Marty York doesn’t write songs, he is to Watkins what the late Charlie Watts was to The Rolling Stones: a steady sanity. Guitarists Steve Piper and Tom Whitmore, who swaps bass and guitar between songs with Kerry Regan. The trouble starts with brothers Scott and Kerry Regan Scott is the host of the WRUR-FM (88.5) morning music show “Open Tunings.” Then there’s trombonist and keyboard player Rick McRae. Yet while the band plays with a wink and a knowing nod, the songwriters all have their distinctive notes. Watkins & the Rapiers is a bit like The Eagles: Too many songwriters. The show was “Singing Serling: An Evening of Songs Inspired by Specific Episodes of ‘The Twilight Zone.’” Fourteen songs, each inspired by one of the show’s science-fiction tales. Fifty-five or so people, most of whom were likely familiar with what Watkins & the Rapiers would be delivering Wednesday night at the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival. The room at the Rochester Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Gibbs Street was packed. 22, 2021 as part of the Rochester Fringe Festival.
