Other texts are by Michaux F?lon Da Vinci Reger and Foucault all quoted in
Posted in General on 15. Oct, 2010
Other texts are by Michaux, F?lon, Da Vinci, Reger and Foucault, all quoted in their original languages. And there’s Gertrude Stein, whose Wars I Have Seen yields spoken reminiscences of Paris in 1943, some vaguely amusing. But then, it’s part of Goebbels’ strategy to equalise the trite with the profound, off-loading chunks of Stein one moment, then Michaux the next.Some scenes are disturbing. After the pounded silver drums of the “Triumphal March”, huge puppets are hauled out of wooden containers, worked by the cast before being laid to rest. A little later, three model castles are casually inspected by dignitaries; one flicks a ball – a cannonball, as it turns out – and it’s instant war. Among the scenes in a temple is a descending line of bells, each struck with deafening force by worshippers who stride back and forth against a roaring industrial backdrop. There’s a scene with formalised disco dancing, another with a temple flautist, a Hindi chant by A R Rahman, then, most bizarrely, an Oklahoma!-style line-up for “Out Where the West Begins” and “Freight Train”; we end in the temple with a phased farewell.Paysage avec parents ?ign?is viscerally and intellectually exciting, and the production is remarkable for its fluency and impact But it is far from comfortable.
By his own admission, Goebbels was deeply affected by September 11. Even in the face of multilingual crossfire, you sense the presence of colliding cultures The sounds and images stay with you. The idea is for us to react, speculate and reconsider, much as we have already done with Goebbels’ Eislermaterial and Surrogate Cities. So, might Paysage, like its recorded predecessors, be condensed into a sound-only version, maybe in preparation for a ECM CD? “I’ll decide that later,” Goebbels says “I never plan that in advance I need some distance from the piece.
The acoustic aspect has a life of its own, and I don’t want to prejudge it.”In the meantime, the opera would surely raise a storm in the UK. Although the Geneva audience contained a small but, I suppose, inevitable reactionary element – the offended would spasmodically crouch and scamper for the nearest exit – the majority stayed the course and joined in a well-earned ovation.. Actress Samantha Morton, 25, got her first break in the TV drama Band of Gold. Her latest role is as the lead in Lynne Ramsay’s thriller Morvern Callar. What do you think?Morvern is always listening to her Walkman. If you had to create a soundtrack to your life, what music would you choose?Joy Division.You seem to have total confidence in what you do.