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Tag: Theatre

  • Meredith Monk – Bending Melodies in ‘Songs of Ascension’

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    Cover via Amazon A review from NYTimes.com: The wonder of Meredith Monk is that having created a musical language and theatrical style, she has been able to stretch and refine them with just about every work. Her recent music, including “Songs of Ascension,” a collaboration with the video artist Ann Hamilton, which opened at the…

  • Axiom – Clearing Musical Hurdles With Poise and Flair

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    Cover of Gyorgy Ligeti (20th-Century Composers) NYTimes.com reviews this recent performance. You might wonder, then, why Axiom — a bright, versatile young ensemble formed by students at the Juilliard School in 2005 — chose four toothy examples of latter-day modernism for its season-opening concert at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater on Monday night. The program,…

  • DMG Newsletter April 3rd, 2009

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    John Zorn (via last.fm) From DMG: Sun Ra 6 CD Slugs box .. and Live ’64 with Pharoah! Lou Reed Metal Machine Music Trio Live 2CD! Derek Bailey ’74! Melvin Gibbs With Pete Cosey & John Medeski! Joe Morris! Cooper-Moore! Gunter Hampel original Heartplants ’65! Bob Moses! Roswell Rudd Trombone Tribe! Miles Okazaki! LaDonna Smith/Michael…

  • John Zorn Scores Richard Foreman’s Astronome

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    A review of this show is available. Richard Foreman has a stimulus package for those who’ve missed the Ontological-Hysteric Theater‘s sensory overload the last few years. The director-playwright-designer founded his pioneering theater in 1968, mounting total-environment stagings of his own mind-plays. But in 2006, he embarked on the Bridge Project, a series of smaller video-performance…