'This Clement World' Lacks Emotional Complication
In the ongoing struggle to make good art about climate change, neither sympathy for the animals nor rage about our self-induced apocalypse seems to be doing the trick. One might then expect Cynthia Hopkins, a multitalented composer and performer whose stage works blur concert, film, and confessional performance, to point out a new direction in her latest work, “This Clement World.” Though she ably applies…