Archives for February 2007

Yesterday was

“I don’t see dancing. I start with the music. I listen to a lot of music, a lot of the time. Loads of Bach. But for me to want to choreograph a piece, there’s got to be some twist to it, something odd. A certain weirdness. It could be rhythmic, or something about the orchestration, or some wrong chord nobody ever notices that makes me crazy. And the concept of ‘danceable’ music doesn’t mean much to me. A lot of music I choose is the opposite of what people would choose to dance to.”

Mark Morris (quoted in A Terry Teachout Reader)

As promised, my profile of Ennio Morricone is in this morning

The list for Wednesday:

A friend writes, apropos of yesterday

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