Helene Posted March 20, 2019 Posted March 20, 2019 Today, Wednesday, March 20 at 5pm EDT, Mark Morris and MMDG Music Director Ethan Iverson will answer questions about Pepperland on Facebook Live:
dirac Posted May 12, 2019 Posted May 12, 2019 Tom Phillips reviews Pepperland for danceviewtimes, in no uncertain terms. Quote Great artists know what they don't know, and where they shouldn't go. George Balanchine for example never choreographed to Beethoven, because he said Beethoven's works were complete in themselves, nothing to add. Mark Morris could have used that kind of discernment when he accepted a commission for a 50th-anniversary tribute to the Beatles’ masterpiece “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” The resulting “Pepperland” is an uncharacteristically shallow piece that does worse than add nothing. It subtracts much of the album's content, substituting original segments by composer Ethan Iverson that have only fleeting connections to the Beatles. Beyond that, the whole project completely misses the spirit and the style of "Sgt. Pepper."
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