![]() This program, the finale of Monday Evening Concerts' eightieth anniversary season brings us a very special guest: the magnificent Anne Carson, who will serve as the narrator for her breathtaking Lecture on the History of Skywriting. It comes, it goes, it whispers, it shouts, it waits, it mumbles, and occasionally, it sings. Philip Glass's Glassworks (1984) is, to my mind, the consummate distillation of a compositional language with its origins in Beckett's theater works. In Anne Carson's Lecture on the History of Skywriting, the narrator describes an existence without linear time, which it refers to as a human and mortal invention. ![]() ![]() During a 1981 production of Samuel Beckett's Quad I and II under the direction of the author,īeckett told his performers that there was to be "an intermission of 100,000 years" between the two parts. ![]()
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