On the surface, "Vixen" might seem a safer choice than "Le Grand Macabre," a bleakly comic, musically thorny work from the late 1970s that received its first American staging only in 2004, at the San Francisco Opera.
Transdisciplinarity requires actors to engage actively in the messy and thorny work of overcoming difference and awkwardness whilst also drawing strength and value from the very existence of those differences (Demir 2008, 2011).
Miranda Cuckson has quickly become one of a handful of go-to musicians for chamber groups that need a violinist who can play thorny works with undeniable musicality.
And how cool is it that attendees at a free music festival turned out so eagerly to hear thorny works by Xenakis in Central Park?
The baritone John Hancock made thorny works like "Abraham and Isaac" and "Pribaoutki" alluring; the soprano Lei Xu sang with clear tone and diction in songs by Delage and Stravinsky.
Instead of imposing an overarching style, Joseph Rubenstein, the composer and pianist who runs the festival, seems to enjoy assembling programs in which harmonically thorny works, jazz-inspired scores and pieces that, if not entirely Minimalist, borrow from that style's technical arsenal, are offered side by side.
In the original, Everyman reads as a thorny, preachy little work about squaring up to death.
To overcome the equally strong desire to stay under the covers when the temperature drops below 30, I force myself out in a few ways: RUNNING AS THERAPY Exercise is a good way to think through a thorny situation at work or in life.
Much of the thorniest work done there was outsourced to a team led by Andrei Terekhov, the then-chairman of the Department of Informatics at the University of St . Petersburg
