Mr. van Dantzig's own best work took its title from Richard Strauss's "Four Last Songs".
"In reality his best work took place in the 1960's in California," Mr. Freeman said, "books like 'Down There on a Visit' and 'A Single Man,' a novel out of that cultural moment that was about traffic, race, culture, minority politics".
Though Greenberg leaves loose ends lying about -- the least of them being why this apparently proud Jewish family celebrates Christmas so devotedly -- the writing is mostly at the level of his best work (Take Me Out, The Violet Hour, Three Days of Rain).
"The great thing about dancing for Paul is that his best works take you on a journey as a performer," Mr. Asnes said.
Separate Tables (performed 1945), perhaps his best known work, took as its theme the isolation and frustration that result from rigidly imposed social conventions.
Like much of the studio's best work, Kingdom takes the form of a measured, wistful leave-taking – a guided farewell tour.
These poems track the fault lines in Lee's work to its historical source, but the best work here takes for granted a past of rupture and trauma, implying, beneath its placid verbal surfaces, the pain it seeks to transform.
His latest work takes the best elements from his past releases and wraps them up in creepiness with with the help of little-known but immensely talented Gil Montiel.
I want them to know that BBC Production will be the place to do their best work, to take risks.
Though he rejects the notion that he has a southern sensibility, some of his best work was taken locally, and has a definite southern Gothic undertow.
