But the composer instructed that his quirky texts be narrated between the 21 short movements, not over the music, as Nick McDonell did here.
Ms. van der Stokker's aggressively charming pastel-colored wall paintings of abstract blobs, cartoon flowers, plaid patterns and quirky texts project a childlike sweetness, wholesome family values and mischievous ironies.
Founded by Adam Green and Jonathan Gray, the site and its newsletter showcase the best and quirkiest texts, images and films the internet has to offer.
The program ended with excerpts from "Song Books, Vol. 1" (1970), whose quirky multilingual texts were delivered with flair by the soprano Lara Secord-Haid and the bass-baritone Davone Tines.
Browse rare vinyl at Red Cat Records, local art and graphic novels at Lucky's Comics, handmade notebooks and badges at quirky stationery store Regional Assembly of Text and pick up a pretty floral dress or two at The Barefoot Contessa.
Spellcheck, predictive text and its quirky sibling "speech to text" make it pretty much impossible to remember how to spell words like "Receipt," "Pneumonia," and, ironically, "Misspell" (that second "s" just always looks weird).
But there are also some quirky provisions tucked into the text.
The libretto, mostly numbers, solfège syllables and quirky, stream-of-consciousness spoken texts, works its own hypnotic spell.
He cut his teeth writing not for print-based publications but for the web, and his new book Marco Polo Didn't Go There (Traveler's Tales, £8.99) is the best - and most quirky - post-modern travel-writing "text book" available on either side of the Atlantic.
Informal text can match well with quirky, fun background patterns or images.
