Word: minimalistically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drive of Ravel's Bolero; the serene radiance of Gandhi's final aria in Glass's Satyagraha. None of these pieces, however, approach in length or cumulative impact a new work by British composer Gavin Bryars, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, which is at once an apotheosis of minimalist technique and a moving affirmation of the power of simple song...
Richards' singing starts out as minimalist statements and slowly grows into an over-powering, howling duet with his backup. The track goes on a full two minutes longer than the original, and the juggernaut groove seems as though it could go on forever. When Richards voices over, "Dig these guys," at the end, you're still in shock...
...minimalist plot is centered around Jeremy Acidophilus, a 29 year-old, marking time in a "veal-fattening pen" (a.k.a a tiny cubicle) at a publishing company where he is employed as a filer...
...music-theater piece, The Cave, which premiered last week at the Vienna Festival, is hardly a conventional opera. Based on videotaped interviews with Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem, and with Americans in New York City and Austin, Texas, it is a three-act, multimedia, audiovisual collaboration between the pioneering minimalist composer and his wife, the video artist Beryl Korot. By turns fascinating and frustrating, The Cave, which will have other performances this year in Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Brooklyn, Paris and Brussels, stands on its own as a breakthrough piece for Reich and a tantalizing glimpse of what opera might...
...past few years to know what to teach when society itself cannot agree on a direction. Absent any agreement over what is "proper" sexual conduct, teachers can be left reciting, word for word, the approved text on homosexuality or abortion or masturbation. The typical sex-ed curriculum is remarkably minimalist. Most secondary schools offer somewhere between 6 and 20 hours of sex education a year. The standard curriculum now consists of one or two days in fifth grade dealing with puberty; two weeks in an eighth-grade health class dealing with anatomy, reproduction and AIDS prevention, and perhaps a 12th...