Mark Morris's L'Allegro, Il Pensoroso, Ed Il Moderato: A Celebration - Couverture rigide

Acocella, Joan; Lesser, Wendy; Macauley, Alastair

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0709069111 ISBN 13 : 9780709069119

Editeur : Robert Hale Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Celebrates and commemorates this extraordinary artictic achievement. Each of the dance's thirty-two sections in represented by the section of the libretto to which it is set, photographs taken at many live performances and final dress rehearsals over a period of thirteen years, and comments by critics, Morris himself, and his dancers.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Mark Morris' 1988 dance, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, set to music by Handel and poems by John Milton, and inspired by watercolors by William Blake, has been called a work of "utopian grandeur," "a masterpiece of craft, invention, and feeling," "in scale and complexity, in a category by itself." More than 150 photographs capture each of the piece's 32 interconnected dances and are accompanied by the text of Milton's interwoven poems, "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso," to which Handel set the music. Appreciative essays are by New Yorker critic and Morris biographer Joan Acocella, British critic Alastair Macaulay, and Threepenny Review editor Wendy Lesser. "Possibly the most exhaustive examination of a single dance work ever published."—New York Times "An extraordinarily handsome new book ... A thorough and valuable critique and appreciation of this glorious dance work."—The New York Observer "A beautiful coffee-table book.... Elegantly photographed, edited, and produced. A treasured gift for a Morris fan."—Dance Magazine

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Robert Hale Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0709069111
• ISBN 13: 9780709069119
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Éditeur: Escoffier Jeffrey, Lore Matthew
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible