During that period of testing his wings, Mr. Goldenthal, with his customary ebony clothes and long Byronesque hair, also choreographed, cast and wrote music for a five-minute interpretation of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth as his end-term project.
Both the newbie guitarist who plays those first few notes of "Smoke on the Water" with astounded glee and the one who steps off the stage after wailing his own 32-minute interpretation of "Free Bird" need to find inspiration for what they do.
Director Antony Sandoval works an impressive array of techniques into his fleet, 80-minute interpretation of Christopher Marlowe's late 16th century play, but it's the existing magic -- in the text and in the outdoor venue at Barnsdall Art Park -- that succeeds above all.
"ROMEO AND JULIET," a 90-minute modern interpretation of Shakespeare's drama, presented by Theaterworks/U.S.A., at the Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street, West Village.
Mallarmé's work would become the inspiration for many musical pieces, the most prominent of which was Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894), a ten-minute tonal interpretation of Faune.
Performances of the up-to-the-minute interpretation, which incorporates themes of gay marriage, unemployment and other contemporary issues — without changing the text — will be at the amphitheater at Riverbank State Park, 145th Street and Riverside Drive, Harlem; pulseensembletheatre.org.org
I suppose I shouldn't admit that I kept thinking about those raccoons all through the 90 minutes of JoAnne Akalaitis's interpretation of "The Bacchae," which opened last night in a production starring Jonathan Groff and Anthony Mackie, with music by Philip Glass.
We were down to 10 men for 90 minutes because of an interpretation of violence that we can all judge with our own eyes".
Here she performed 10 of them, imbuing the music with an essential refinement and whimsy, demonstrated in her sparkling rendition of the famous "Minute" Waltz and her poised interpretation of the aristocratic Waltz in C sharp minor (Op. 64, No. 2).
I can only ever provide about five to ten minutes of interpretation and the rest of the time is spent fluffing the info, teasing it out of each person to appear larger than it actually is.
