Word: sonata
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...canvas for her light animation and enveloped her viewers, who stood in the spiral, in an “audio-visual” experience. Animated waves of light oscillated up and down the spiral, as if choreographed to the sound of Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata for piano. Although more traditional listeners may have cringed at this reinterpretation of one of Beethoven’s most famed works, Hagebölling said that her goal was to “give listeners a totally new experience… to allow viewers to understand the music...
Morris’s composition, which is set to two concertos and a sonata, often moves against major trends in the music. In “Eleven,” the first piece of the show, “The concerto is jagged and edgy,” he said. “The dance, on the other hand, moves in a very lyrical fashion...