Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just about everything else is, quite simply, wonderful. The scenery and the choreography are somewhat constrained by the claustrophobic proportions of the Agassiz stage, but the opulent costumes provide all the visual splendor necessary...
...there is a fault to be found with the production, it is with the way Stage Director Sandro Sequi, who directed the opera at La Scala, handles the chorus. Visual non Sequiturs play a big part in his theory of direction. When in doubt, he makes the chorus crisscross. If the arrival of a leading character is announced offstage, he sends half the chorus scurrying for the wings to clear space. That is maddening, because Rossini made the chorus an active participant in the drama rather than a commentator...
...wind or sprouting of vegetation could be a clue in the work of survival. So it is not surprising that Scythian art?both the objects they made for themselves in the 7th-6th centuries B.C., and the ones they later had made for them by Greek metalsmiths?was supremely visual: accurate observation combined with an amazing clarity of design. The panther hammered from a sheet of gold and worn as a shield ornament in the late 7th or early 6th century B.C. contains, in its bulging, simplified planes, all the rhythmical vitality one might expect from Cubist sculpture: an epigram...
...academic expertise-and is willing to pay dearly for it. Faced with dwindling income from endowments, foundations and the Federal Government, college administrators from Harvard to the University of Southern California have headed for the Middle East to offer Iranians training and advice in everything from the latest audio-visual techniques to the peaceful uses of atomic energy...
...Evans last public statements are available at the Audial Visual Center in Boylston Hall...