Tag: staged

San Francisco Classical Voice: The Dizzying World of György Ligeti

March 21, 2017

…Woolf’s illustrative music [for Act without Words I], as does her 2013 silent film score Suspense, skillfully augments the performers’ movements. Short motivic bursts illustrate the sudden actions of the man falling off a box and throwing himself against a wall, for example—but  when he cradles the length of rope, contemplating the sweetness of death, Woolf trades terse gestures for long, legato tones…

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Center for New Music: Interview with Luna Pearl Woolf about Act Without Words I

March 14, 2017

…”Music is storytelling. We are drawn to a piece of music, whether it’s classical or another genre, because of the emotion it evokes in us. What I love about dramatic music is that it’s a long form – it’s not simply expressing one or two emotions, but it’s constantly drawing you from one state into another through a transformational experience”…ActWoWordsRenataRakovaMichaelMohammedCreditKevinFryer Continue reading “Center for New Music: Interview with Luna Pearl Woolf about Act Without Words I” →