To portray Williamsburg as the setting of an artists' soap opera disturbs me.
Previously, Mr. McVeigh resisted further appeals, which speeded the setting of an execution date.
The place would appear to be the perfect setting of an open-air staging of "The Flintstones".
Demonstrating his drawing power, hundreds of supporters turned out in the unlikely and awkward setting of an aircraft hanger.
One of them, though, "Erinnerung an Eichendorff und Schumann," is a pointed setting of an Eichendorff verse that Schumann had set in his "Liederkreis".
I think it's a mistaken notion to take the setting of an artwork as the subject matter, when in fact it's the staging ground.
Updating the setting of an operatic staple can easily seem a strained attempt by a stumped director to inject a familiar work with contemporary resonance.
The fifth movement will be a setting of an Italian text, the piece's point being the universality of the passions and the way they fire writers' imaginations.
Lisa Bielawa arrived in May with only sketches for her work, "Hurry," a setting of an English translation of a Pasternak poem.
The last song is a setting of an invocation to the moon by Hafis, translated by Rückert - the only poem in the cycle not by Henze.
His next full-scale play, Punk Rock (also 2009), transplanted an event resembling the Columbine massacre to the unlikely setting of an English private school.
