Thanks to Miles Unger for recognizing the holographic work of the Boston artist Harriet Casdin-Silver ["She Adapts a Science of Illusion to Her Art," July 15.] Ms. Casdin-Silver speaks to us of timely issues, and on many levels, in spite of the technical demands of the medium.
Because of the technical demands of shooting in a muted colour palette, production of the film took two years, a rarity in the fast-paced Hong Kong film industry.
The constant fear was that some of the technical demands of the shorter forms, the extravagances, might not sit kindly with those virtues of self-denial away from the constraints of time, that have made him such a formidable Test match batsman.
Conceived and produced with his partner, the video artist Beryl Korot, the hour-long piece isn't one of Reich's most oft-performed works, in part because of its technical demands.
Some of the technical demands were beyond them.
Haydn was only incidentally a pianist, as the modesty of his technical demands made clear.
"The theatre fascinated him," the playwright Marc Connelly later wrote, "but I do not think he ever had any comprehension of its technical demands".
Sellars was the director of Saariaho's "Only the Sound Remains" (canceled from last summer's Ojai Music Festival because of its technical demands).
