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...opera is, in effect, a showcase for the two very different types of sopranos—dramatic and coloratura—and each takes full advantage of the opportunity to have fun. Owens’s sturdy, firmly rooted rendition of the aria “Es gibt ein Reich?? (“There is a Kingdom”) bolsters a part of the opera-within-an-opera that can tend to drag (which, to be fair, might simply have been the result of Strauss emulating the less-skilled idiom of a younger composer). It punches the same...
...echoing the juxtaposition of surface and interior that underlay the entire work. If the 90s is known as a period where art concerned itself with the body’s extremities, “Black and White” is certainly no exception. Despite the ethnic flair of Steve Reich??s “Drumming, Part I” to which “Falling Angels” was set, “Black and White” was noticeably blanch. The aesthetic poignancy of perfectly interlocking bodies or the impression of nude figures could not have been...
...regime to police officers who had merely asked students for their IDs, quickly learned that their gathering was legitimate, and let the merriment continue unabated. The comparison is no more intelligent, and every bit as obnoxious, as the National Rifle Association’s occasional invocation of the Third Reich??s plentiful gun control laws to make its case for gun rights in America...
...album, “A Ballad for Many,” certainly deals in disorder. The first half hour of his collaboration with the Bang on a Can All-Stars—an instrumental group whose core of material comes from avant-garde composers like Brian Eno and Steve Reich??is dissonant enough to make acid jazz sound like Muzak...
...most of her day thinking about art. She’s starred in a number of Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club productions and is currently directing Federico García Lorca’s “The House of Bernarda Alba” in the Loeb Experimental Theatre.And Steve Reich??s work is, if nothing else, “artistic” music. For its listeners, it’s hardly guilty; for most, it’s hardly a pleasure.“Listen to this. It’s four minutes of people clapping...