Word: minimalistic
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...more conventional musical paintings of landscape. The music here is generic and forgettable. In fact, in “The Mountain,” with its repetitive ostinatos and zigzagging string lines occasionally punctuated with brass and bells, sounds awfully like a recycling of Adams’ earlier post-minimalist works like “Harmonielehre” and “Naïve and Sentimental Music.”Last year, Adams had the country abuzz with the premiere of “Doctor Atomic,” his opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...walls, the floor was covered with prints, drawings, and photographs. Jeremy McDonnell, associate director of the gallery, said, “We always have work out, from our inventory, in addition to any exhibit, which we are showing to clients.” Though the gallery specializes in minimalist and conceptual art—there are two superb Sol LeWitt wall drawings—there is a wonderful air of vitality and community as the staff greets the old friends and clients who swirl in and out.Gallery Judi Rotenberg (130 Newbury) has shown young, emerging artists for the past three...
...touch.Doyle is a dramatic craftsman par excellence—his revival of “Sweeney” was one of the most thrilling nights of theater I’ve ever experienced—but his production of another intimate Sondheim revival begs the question: when will his minimalist style cease to be aesthetically legitimate and become, instead, a gimmick?The same question could be asked generally of the entire genre of musical theater. Is it a legitimate artistic form with its own set of composition rules, or merely the bastard child of tragedy and opera?The 1975 musical...
Only the boldest lit concentrator and Toscanini’s regular takes his MacBook to the minimalist outside tables, where he can pretend to read (but actually just be seen with) post-colonialist Prof. Homi K. Bhabha’s “The Location of Culture.” In addition to his leather manbag stuffed with Marlboro Reds and Saturday night show tickets for the Middle East, he sports an ironic Communist slogan T-shirt. But don’t be fooled by the façade of pretension; he’s actually quite approachable?...
...seem to make a significant difference thematically, the change is beneficial, since fussy Victorian petticoats and hats would have detracted from the true value of the play—watching the way people weave intricate webs of intrigue around themselves, and veer between frivolity and seriousness. Similarly, the minimalist set (just a few boxes, champagne glasses and the eponymous fan) also keeps the focus on the details of the characters’ manipulations. The cast does an excellent job of interpreting much of Wilde’s juicy dialogue, which uses the musings and chatter of the idle rich...