Illness took at least a theoretical toll on the cast: As Tristan, Alan Woodrow was replaced by Christian Franz, and a program note said that Christine Brewer, the Isolde, "wishes the audience to know that she is still recuperating from a stomach flu".
They were part of the Soaking Wet series created by Jeffrey Kazin and David Parker, who included a program note explaining that the two choreographers "show an underlying unity of purpose in their creation of eloquent work".
Likened by Mr. Rouse in a program note to a grand mal seizure and uneasy even in repose, the piece is unsparing in its demands for pinpoint accuracy, sudden dynamic contrasts and clear articulation.
The Long Wharf production, directed by Ms. Turner, uses a new adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher that, according to a program note from Ms. Turner, aims to delve "deeper into the relationship between the women at the core of the story," in keeping with our more evolved view of homosexuality.
It was, according to a program note by the Joffrey's artistic director, Ashley Wheater, inspired by the work of Alexander Calder.
(I quote from a program note by Giselher Schubert of the Hindemith Institute).
In opposition to the idea of closure, a program note by James Young speaks of the need for an "unfinished memorial process".
A program note by Strømgren was helpful: "The necessity to formulate everything in words, even the theme of necessity itself, is possibly a disease of our times.
If the Taiwanese composer Tzu-Ling Sarana Chou kept clear of overt musical influences, her "Quadro Parlante" (2003) was inspired, she wrote in a program note, by Rembrandt's self-portraits.
