Word: musically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Company. Miss Crouse's production, Winter, General Clearance of Evils at the Beginning of is as ambitious as its title, and, almost incvitably, sometimes falls short of its goals. But when it succeeds it does more than create moments of beauty and excitement; it fuses space, light, and color, music and movement, into a living whole: the all-encompassing "Energy" Blake called Eternal Delight...
...clements to be integrated in the second dance, "Pavilion," are much more complex. The music is partly electronic, partly live percussion. The visual design includes slides as well as light changes, and the dance is done by the whole company. Most important, a thematic element is introduced: Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" is the inspiration of the piece. Some technical mishaps didn't make the task of uniting these elements any easier, and at times the production seemed ragged. But overall "Pavilion" is the most exciting and original dance in Winter. and contains its most brilliant sequences...
Unfortunately, in the final seene, "American Meadows," Lindsay Crouse seems to have forgotten that words can be limiting. The three-part dance is accompanied by the narration of Blake's poem "Song of Liberty." By itself the poem is extremely complex; combined with the complexity of Cherries Ivies music, and of the choreography which mixes mime with dance, the poem becomes virtually incoherent to anyone who hasn't studied it extensively beforehand. More important, the intellectual effort which the poem demands detracts from our response to the dance-it leaves us fragmented. This is a sad irony, because Blacke...
...turns out, I really didn't have to worry; the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players do a swell job of making this kind of flufly-puffy opera delightfully accessible. Sitting there listening to all those super waltzes. I suddenly realized that even I know something about music. For hadn't Johann Strauss written the score for last year's 2001 in collaboration with his brother Richard? Sure. Opera is all around...
...apologies to music director John Miner and his orchestra. While a polysyllabic evaluation of their performance is quite beyond me, I was able to notice that tempos seemed quite spirited, the audience seemed quite appreciative, and the female timpanist was quite lovely. Dic Fledermans (in English) runs over three hours, what with everyone singing away instead of just saving things outright but no one-singers, musicians, or audience-appears to tire along...