haiku review: tallis scholars at riverside church

Reviews are probably the second most common feature in personal blogs, following slightly behind posts along the lines of "God I'm so into Jimmy but he was mean to me today in fourth period but Alicia says that Tanya said that he likes me too but so I don't know what he really thinks and it's all so confusing and my parents don't get me and I'm hating life right now but if Jimmy really likes me then everything is great :)" Please imagine the appropriate spelling errors...

In any case, I'm hoping to use this venue primarily for mid-length anecdotes and short essays, but I'm certainly not above a review or two. However, in an effort to balance the greater length of my typical entry, I will endeavor in all but rare cases to constrain myself to reviews in the form of haiku.

Yes, where others will blather through 500 or 1,000 words to tell you what they thought of "Constantine" or "The Lovely Bones," I will distill my thoughts about media I've consumed to 17 syllables. If I really need to, I'll resort to the tanka, an older but lesser known (in the West) Japanese poetic form, which has 5 lines, of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables.

With that introduction, on Saturday night I saw the legendary (I don't use that term lightly) Tallis Scholars perform some Flemish polyphony at Riverside Church up near Columbia.

Authentic? No way!
No real Renaissance choir
Could sound so sublime.