"I'm hopeful that this will usher in a whole new layer of dialogue," said Brad M. Hoylman, chairman of Community Board 2 in Manhattan, whose district includes much of New York University.
And the full ensemble, with Jeffrey Milarsky conducting, closed the concert with Gérard Grisey's "Talea" (1986), a work that is as dense and as concerned with texture as the Boulez, but that also offers layers of involving dialogue and counterpoint.
With its layers of weighted dialogue, "Here" has a lot in common with Abbas Kiarostami's "Certified Copy," a film whose intellectual superstructure didn't preclude the emergence of vivid, quirky personalities.
That is the recommended recipe for ingesting "Whispers: An Elephant's Tale," a custard of cloying anthropomorphism under the Walt Disney Pictures label compounded out of extraordinary nature film bonded to a layer of inane dialogue.
But everything else about the work is brazenly and triumphantly new: Philip Feeney's electronic score, the almost all male casting, the stripped-back precision of Sophie Charalambous and Adam Silverman's designs, the renovation of storytelling through a layering of spoken dialogue and movement.
This "further narrative layer" has passages of dialogue right out of a bad screenplay: "As Rebecca put down her fork, her brows were knit.
Our policy towards Russia should be to increase layers of cooperation and dialogue in order to intertwine both interests together for the sake of peace.
The 90-minute intermissionless play, part of Incubator Arts Project's Other Forces festival, presents layer upon layer of involved, dialogue-heavy plot.
Click on the layer named Background and click the garbage bin icon on the lower right of the layers dialogue box.
Through sustained shots of streets and skies, and through the layering of anonymous voices real dialogue from New Yorkers that Lonergan overheard and wrote down in notebooks—it seeks to capture the city in the first years after the terrorist attacks of September 11th.
