From the Quaternions Sent Tue, Jul 13th 1999, 06:38
From the Quaternions Sent Tue, Jul 13th 1999, 06:38
> On the other hand, the concert I saw in the earl 80's > of the Philip Glass ensemble was nothing short of amazing. On a related note, and continuing a thread from last week, can anyone vouch for the current state of Steve Reich's Muscians? Drumming is coming to the Lincoln Center Festival, along with triple Quaret and Proverb. The Kronos Quartet is playing some of the pieces too (probably Triple Quartet), and I'm trying to figure out if I should try to scam my mom into taking me. They're also performing the Cave, Desert Music and Tehillim on other nights. Are they worthwhile, or just overblown pieces from a composer past his prime? Is the Cave really the redefinition of opera that the blurb claims? Call me a skeptic. On one final tangent, cartoonists Ben Katchor and Art Spiegelman are both working on operas. Katchor with Bang on a Can, Spiegelman with lord only knows who. So, where's the ambition in IDM? Where's the drive to go for big multimedia spectacle, for the epoch shifting artistic event? Orbital and Gus Gus live don't quite cut it. IDM thinks too damn small sometimes. If nothing else, rock operas are beautiful for their sheer pomposity and grandiosity. Where's techno's Einstein on the Beach, or even its Hedwig and the Angry Inch? Think large! Sam