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...helplessly in front of Todd Lee's immense set, apparently to obscure each other at critical moments. Everyone except the chorus carefully skirts center stage, and the blocking progresses in a series of rigid, oddly one-sided tableaux which ensure that each scene not hopelessly confused is tediously, outrageously static. The Chorus has a good deal of pacing to do, which it does largely out of step not only with itself but with its words and Jeremy Johnston's admirable and elegant music. Part of this, admittedly, can't be their fault, for the music and the offensive patter...
...future, it is accepted, though often grudgingly, by those holding the purse strings, both public and private, in Cambridge. It is the residents of the area who will be affected most. In the district that the road will affect, as in the city generally, the population is becoming more static--mostly middle-aged and elderly people. With more attractive residential areas and greater business opportunities elsewhere, the youth of the city is in flight. It is hoped that the new community emerging from the rubble of the Belt Route construction will help attract this younger group back to the area...
...formlessness is Maxfield's most glaring flaw. In order to integrate chance into form, Maxfield cuts his tape into short segments which he then fits together without plan. In Peripateia either these segments were too short or the original tape had no contrasts. I felt that the piece was static and monotonous because it lacked 'events'--that is, a sequences of random happenings that would give a sense of succession of ideas or moods. At its worst, Maxfield's music has an over-blown, almost Mahlerian grandiloquence...
...also maintained that some economic forecasting tools were unreliable, Emphasizing the importance of approaching economic change as a process occurring during a period of time, she charged that a static view could not adequately explain the causes of economic conditions...
Only the music, watered-down jazz composed by the Modern Jazz Quartet's John Lewis, is static. Christensen, however, likes it. "We wanted jazz in the proper element." he says. "The Creation does seem to work in nicely...