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The Bodies Keep the Score
Another summer festival review for Parterre ! This time, Matthew Aucoin's Music for New Bodies, at Lincoln Center.
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First! Everybody buy the new Kronos Quartet CD, which has liner notes by one of my favorite Gregs. The Nonesuch.com store has it on sale, ...
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Opera is an anachronism. It was an anachronism from the moment it was invented—wasn't it?—the last gasp of the neoclassical tendencies ...
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very pathetic - and a little aggressive.
Someone's getting a nice big ASCAP check next January!
Is it weird that this somehow gives me hope for popular culture?
finally the music makes SENSE
Wow, can Reich sue for this? Words just fail to describe this.
Can Steve Reich *sue* people for dancing to his music on teevee?
Um, no. Jesus. People need to chill.
Also: what Zach said.
Well, some music just is not suitable for dance. Case in point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OwdlKiB_ro
Arvo Part is great, the dancers are decent, but the two just don't seem to jive.
Dunno—ACME, I think that Pärt dance piece would look a lot better without those edits in the YouTube version. It actually seems pretty awesome to me, if only the video and audio were synch'd.
And Reich has been the basis of some really excellent dance pieces (e.g.); it's just THIS dance piece that is terrible. And who are these JUDGES, jeezus.
I forgot to note the paradox here: everybody's least favorite Steve Reich piece (esp. Steve Reich's?) is now sure to be, by default, the world's most popular Steve Reich piece.
word, dan. i hate that by-default phenomenon. "pervasive" in pop culture often has more impact than "good".
How could you ever be sour about Steve Reich on prime-time TV?? Ease up peeps!
why such the negativity and pessimism from certain people here?? new music was heard on a prime time television show which is right smack in the middle of mainstream popular culture...and the audience didn't run out or boo! we should remember to be happy when light is shed on living composers' music in popular culture. the more exposure, the better!
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