It appears that leaving the rdio/mp3 cave and actually viewing, with my own eyes, a canonical music work leads to many ideas. Here's hints about what I'm mulling over about last night's Einstein on the Beach:
- totalitarianism
- that strange scene where two guys were on metal beds, then their shadows were projected
- Lucinda Childs is the best
- Philip Glass continues his magnanimous behavior
- no Robert Wilson on-stage
- racial stereotyping?
- do the principals argue, decades later?
- is Zellerbach Hall bad for electronic productions?
- why is Einstein on the beach? (asked of me at the Bancroft Garage ticket payment machine)
- the new (1984) recording
- the atomic bomb slide
- that kid on stage who rode off on his skateboard
- the musicians in the background, after their foreground triumph at Music in Twelve Parts
- bass clarinet?
- what all instruments did Jon Gibson play, anyway?
- Lisa Bielawa!
- when is the DVD?
- as I walked out, people didn't know what to make of it, yet no one left early
- was there lip-syncing or pre-recorded passages?
- why did the doors open early but seating was only 20 minutes before curtain?
- could there ever be an amateur production? (contact me for funding, if yes)
- is "twitchy" a valid dance aesthetic?
- would it have mattered if I saw it three times as planned rather than twice?
- Michael Riesman!
- what will Hong Kong and Mexcio City think about Americans after seeing this?
- LA performance, eventually?
- how do I thank my spouse for letting me go to Berkeley while she helped my Mom tonight in her new residence?
- did I actually fall asleep in the first half, given my level of exhaustion? If so, what did the people around me think?
- would I really prefer all scenes be less than 15 minutes, as I thought during the first half?
- did I turn off all sounds from my iphone and if not, was I prepared for the consequences? (there was one opera tattler-scale phone event)
- why was SF Opera's Nixon in China more vivid (and more smoothly produced)? Is this a composer/generational thing?
- were any of the keyboard parts improvised?
- good or bad that the dancers wore boring costumes?
- Jennifer Koh!
- does Kalamazoo take offense? Good city, when I was visited in the Eighties.
- how come I wasn't mesmerized like the Opera Tattler was, given I'm Glass-susceptible?
- why did Waze route me over the Bay Bridge, given the traffic?
- was this interesting, important, and maybe even fun?
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