Wear and Tear
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& ENTERTAINMENT ᮣ REVIEᮣ WS ELIMELI PHOTOS ELIMELI Y UPRIYA UPRIYA S TKTK TKTK POP, ROCK & JAZZ Jon Davison YES es, an enduring rock institution, touched down at the Arlington on YSunday with a program focused on the contributions of Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn, both of whom performed. Tey began by playing the 1980 album Drama in its entirety, with Downes on keyboards for the tour and Horn jumping in for a song to spell current vocalist Jon Davison. Guitarist Steve Howe’s distinctive musical personal- ity animates this less familiar phase Steve Howe of the band’s career, and it was Howe who provided many of the night’s biggest moments, as when the group ended its first set with a pair of the most At the Arlington beloved Yes concert Theatre, Sunday, staples, “Your Move/ August 28. All Good People” and “Siberian Khatru.” Te long and winding road of the second set passed through a suite from Tales from Topo- graphic Oceans before coming home with the band’s go-to encore of “Roundabout” and “Starship Trooper.” Dancing close to the edge where classic rock flirts with self-parody, Yes keeps it real by honoring the legacies of all the musicians who have contributed to this Billy Sherwood challenging body of music. — Charles Donelan BOOKS WEAR AND TEAR: THE THREADS OF MY LIFE racy Tynan’s vivid and enthralling mem- dynamic account of what was by any standard oir follows her progress from childhood an extraordinary life. The Tynans were a Tas the daughter of legendary theater critic spectacularly difficult couple, prone to shout- Kenneth Tynan and author ing matches and the hurl- Elaine Dundy to a career ing of ashtrays, lamps, and as a costume designer for whatever else came to hand. some of the best indepen- Young Tracy Tynan finds dent films of the 1980s and solace early on by snuggling a long and mostly happy in the nap of one of her marriage to acclaimed mother’s furs. Later, after director Jim McBride. As meeting husband McBride befits a woman whose pre- and working on his reboot occupation with fashion of the classic film Breath- started early and eventually less, she discovers her true became her stock in trade, vocation dressing actors each chapter is titled afer for Hollywood films. The a specific article of cloth- action is nonstop, and so ing, from bikinis and white are the insights, as Tynan denim jeans to pinafores evolves an idiosyncratic yet and even brown Wellington ultimately sympathetic way boots. Despite, or perhaps of looking at her rarefied because of, this seemingly superficial con- world through the lens of attire. ceit, Wear and Tear delivers a remarkably — Charles Donelan.