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27 ott 2017 · The Rome Opera commissioned Morton Feldman to write an opera in 1977. In the same year, the composer collaborated with Irish writer Samuel Beckett, and Neither was completed and premiered. However, it is not an opera in the traditional sense of the word. Feldman and Beckett had first met in 1976 in Berlin, where the latter was directing…
Neither is Morton Feldman's only opera. The libretto is a single page of text by Samuel Beckett. British director Katie Mitchell has paired her new staging of this single act work, premiered in 1977, with her staging of Beckett's 1975 short play, Footfalls.
4 ott 2021 · Morton Feldman (1926–1987)Neither, Opera in one act (1977)text by Samuel BeckettSarah Aristidou, sopranoORF Radio-Symphonieorchester WienRoland Kluttig, cond...
6. Morton Feldman – waiting (Martine Cadieu), May 1971 7. The brink of silence (Richard Bernas and Adrian Jack), June 1972 8. Morton Feldman talks to Paul Griffiths, August 1972 9. Conversation between Morton Feldman and Walter Zimmermann, November 1975 10. Studio International interview (Fred Orton and Gavin Bryars), May 1976 11.
2005 •. Paul Scriver. Morton Feldman was a self-described “well educated autodidact” composer, an avid collector of modern art and sometimes critic of the visual arts (he contributed to Art News and Art in America and also wrote essays for exhibition catalogues) . His approach to composing was deeply influenced by his associations with ...
Album, Reissue. Piano And Orchestra / Flute And Orchestra / Oboe And Orchestra / Cello And Orchestra. Feldman - Woodward, Staege, Aussem, Palm, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Hans Zender. Released. 1997 — Germany. CD —. Album. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2011 CD release of "Neither" on Discogs.
It is an unusual work for Morton Feldman as well. The music seems sick unto death and is post-apocalyptically bleak. These qualities are seldom far away in Feldman's compositions, but here they are uncommonly close. Neither is not something you listen to when you're feeling down. Beckett's short text, which begins "to and fro in shadow from ...
