With Foster's photos comes a plain but singing text — he loves her — and a chronology that corrects previous sources, including Karsavina.
Ms. Harper, whose multimedia works include singing, text and video, managed, in sections from "The Fragile Stone Theory: Interactive Feast," to be pretentious and incoherent at once.
February 27 2013 March 3 201313 For the second week of its Joyce season, this oldest of modern-dance troupes adds a new program, matching Graham classics with "From the Grammar of Dreams," a new work by the erratic Italian choreographer Luca Veggetti, set to Kaija Saariaho's scoring of sopranos singing texts by Sylvia Plath.
When a sung text takes hold of us, which is the more active force?
(It is a pity, though, that only the program notes, and not the sung text, are translated into English).
Works combining spoken words and sung text in local languages German, French, and English were fairly common, and these more-accessible works had periods of great local popularity.
The sung text of Audibles was inspired by a trip Lucier once took to a cafe in Italy with American maverick composer Robert Ashley.
Elizabeth Cragg contributes a distraught presence as Mrs Green, circling the performing space in never-ending mourning, though not enough of her sung text comes over.
Unexpected, too, are the disparities between sung text and musical line, where the words of phrases often speed to an end before the music beneath them has run its course.
If you listen to singers vocalising, as they are asked to do in some instrumental works, using no words at all, the effect (though it can be lovely) is quite different from that of a song or other sung text.
The production, by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch, of the Improbable theatre company, immaculately splits the difference between the historical and the visionary, intermingling scenes of Gandhi in action with vividly imagined motifs out of the Bhagavad Gita, from which the sung text is drawn.
