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...thought aloud, arguing with the choreographers, making unwanted suggestions on how he thought they should develop their dances. Finally, in 1980, Morris rented Merce Cunningham's studio for two nights and presented a program of his own works, including O Rangasayee, a stunning 20-minute solo to an Indian raga that marked him as a talent to watch...
...sassy new music called minimalism burst out of the lofts of Manhattan's SoHo district and marched smartly uptown to the Metropolitan Opera House. Part rock, part raga, part dreamscape and part photo-realism, the minimalist ethos was distilled by composer Philip Glass and theater artist Robert Wilson in a 4 1/2-hour operatic extravaganza called Einstein on the Beach. The sung text consisted solely of numbers and the syllables do, re, mi, etc., while the music was built from a series of simple phrases, insistently repeated. The effect was either riveting or maddening, depending on one's point of view...
What sets Morris apart from most of his contemporaries is his extraordinary musicality. He seems open to a huge variety of styles--raga, rock, Poulenc, with perhaps a special affinity for such musical architects of the baroque as Vivaldi and Handel. Morris can find the dance in the music. Like Balanchine, he can hear a piece whole and render a fresh visualization of it instead of transcribing it as a pattern or making it serve as an organizing element for arbitrary action. In Jealousy, a solo set to Handel, he fills out the score with large, writhing moves and smaller...
...staggering 2,500,000 copies-each a guaranteed package of psychic shivers. Loosely strung together on a scheme that plays the younger and older generations off against each other, it sizzles with musical montage, tricky electronics and sleight-of-hand lyrics that range between 1920s ricky-tick and 1960s raga. A Day in the Life is by all odds the most disturbingly beautiful song the group has ever produced. At the end, the refrain, "I'd love to turn you on," leads to a hair-raising chromatic crescendo by a full orchestra and a final blurred chord that...
...this statement. Does the reviewer mean to imply that it would be disgusting for two men to knowingly fall in love with another man? And one comment: If so, I find it highly unprofessonal and in poor taste for personal judgement to find its way into journalism. Michelle Raga...