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...studios and advertising agencies of Soho and Covent Garden. I remember to this day the look of utter incomprehension on the Prince's face as I made my case. Only later did a colleague point out the obvious; that with the exception of visits to the Royal Opera House, it was highly unlikely that the Prince had ever visited Soho and Covent Garden, much less wandered its streets picking up the vital signs of the new Britain. Had he done so, he would surely have noticed - as Andrew Sullivan recently put it - that "British society has morphed into a free...
BRITAIN Firemen Strike, Brits Shrug If the compositions of Bach and Mozart send some listeners into raptures, they also send some folks packing. Danish railway authorities used high-volume broadcasts of Bach's organ music and Mozart's doom-laden opera Don Giovanni to clear Copenhagen's main station of drunks and junkies. If things get really bad, they can always play The Ketchup Song.There was no al-Qaeda dirty bomb, no chemical plant disaster, no towering inferno. None of the worst-case scenarios imagined by tabloid journalists and military planners ahead of the U.K.'s first fire-services strike...
Kentridge is an unusually versatile artist, with a background ranging from opera to politics. He was born into a Jewish family in Johannesburg in 1955. In an interview with writer bell hooks in the September 1998 issue of Interview magazine, he noted that “a central irony exists for South African Jews. To be Jewish was to be other…But in the present, we are absolutely not part of those most oppressed.” Kentridge’s fascination with otherness and the divisions within South African society led him to earn...
...from Johannesburg to study mime and theatre at the Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France, from 1981 to 1982. In more recent years, he has collaborated with the Handspring Puppet Company, creating multimedia theater combining animation, puppets and live actors. In 1998, the Company staged a multimedia version of the opera Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria by Claudio Monteverdi...
...leapt out in meter, or with a melody, or with a bass-and-percussion rhythm attached. Music and song evoke responses in us that straight text doesn’t, and vice-versa. I keep finding myself wanting to juxtapose text and song, but not in a new-music-opera way. I’m too much of a text-bound creature for that...