Mark Morris' L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569245800 ISBN 13: 9781569245804

Publisher: Marlowe & Company, 2002

Synopsis

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

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Review

"A beautiful new photo book...includes essays...Pictures from rehearsals and performances...document each of the piece's 32 movements." -- Out Magazine

"A guide that makes you want to see the dance over and over." -- Francis Mason, The World of Dance

"A stunner." -- Time Out New York

"An extraordinarily handsome new book...It's a thorough and valuable critique and appreciation of this glorious dance work..." -- Robert Gottlieb, The New York Observer

"Possibly the most exhaustive examination of a single dance work ever published." -- Steven Watson, the New York Times

Edition details

• Publisher: Marlowe & Company
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1569245800
• ISBN 13: 9781569245804
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Escoffier Jeffrey, Lore Matthew