Long after we've passed into adulthood, after we have gotten our careers underway, perhaps begun families, taken on adult financial and other responsibilities, we remain driven by a version of adolescent love -- variations of the same themes -- possessiveness, intense longing, chronic desire for newness and excitement, and fear of loss of identity if you "lose" the other.
Three dancers (Whitney Simler, Jason McDole and Dario Vaccaro, at this performance) in white shirts and gray slacks designed by William Ivey Long and Kermit Love perform variations on a phrase of contrapuntal movement.
In the F minor Quartet from Op. 20, we hear the love of variation and its link to sonata form.
| June 13 at 8: Inna Faliks loves the variation form so much that she's devoting a whole concert to the genre, hollowing out Bach's Goldberg Variations (only performing the opening and closing arias and one variation in between) and filling the void with works by Bright Sheng, Jennifer Higdon, Derek Bermel ("Kontraphunktus"), Lukas Foss, Fred Hersch, and David Del Tredici, among others.
Chen Yi channeled the Swingle Singers in her bright-hued version of "Shady Grove," and Kirke Mechem's mawkish setting of "Let Us Break Bread Together" was redeemed by his more vital recasting of "Love and Pizen: Variations on Springfield Mountain".
But I love that eighth variation.
As one who loves the "Goldberg" Variations on the harpsichord but who would hate to give up, among others, Glenn Gould's piano version, I would urge the curators of digital art to be open to all the possibilities at their disposal.
However, it is found that only an implausibly strong and spatially complex toroidal field is consistent with flow advection and LOD variation (Love and Bloxham [1994]).
They all love it -- with variations, of course.
In Così, all variations on love's fickleness are possible, but not necessarily all worth acting out.
It is the singular love story with infinite variations, suggested by its eye-catching stage direction: "an indented rule indicates a change in universe".
