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...making pervades everything they do and even comes through on their LPs. One of their best is the Schubert Symphony No. 5 (Sound 80). It is impeccable in its details, and yet it breathes with spontaneity and ardor. Another notable release, on Nonesuch, contains pieces by William Bolcom, including Commedia, one of many works commissioned by the orchestra...
...nine pieces which are accompanied by an original score composed by Robert Kyr, a composer-in-residence and junior fellow at North House. The show uses a variety of corporal techniques, from the pantomime of Marceau to a classic, dramatic piece inspired by the festive tradition of the Italian commedia dell' arte...
...music reflects the mimic style and adds another artistic dimension to it. "Love in the Pantry," a piece based on the harlequin character from the commedia dell' arte, tells the story of the harlequin's love for a maid. His courting is spurned at first, but he wins her over and she offers him food and drink. The other servants in the house discover him and throw him out bodily, with the offending maid close behind. The two pick themselves up, held themselves to the supplies of the pantry, and live happily ever after. By associating the characters with instruments...
...sees some negative consequences: "a certain flattening of personality" and perhaps "a stunting effect on creativity, devotion, courage and similar forms of transcendence. Has it not been said that if Dante had married Beatrice, we would not have had the Divina Commedia...
...center, Paris the province. It was now the turn of the Americans-Rothko and de Kooning, Johns and Rauschenberg, the Pop artists in the '60s-to alarm and stimulate the French. Thus the puritan Yankee paying his awkward homages to Matisse's sensuality was replaced, in the commedia dell'arte, by the French Pop artist in his new-faded denims gazing raptly on the neon of Times Square...