Mark Morris' L'Allegro, il pensoroso ed il moderato : a celebration / edited by Jeffrey Escoffier and Matthew Lore ; essays by Joan Acocella, Wendy Lesser, Alastair Macauley ; photographs by Stephen Black ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Escoffier, Jeffrey.

Lore, Matthew, 1966-

Acocella, Joan Ross.

Lesser, Wendy.

Macauley, Alastair.

Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Allegro, il pensoroso, ed il moderato (Choreographic work : Morris).

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)

Physical Description:

153 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Marlowe & Co. : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2001]

Summary:

Mark Morris' 1988 dance, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, set to music by Handel and poems by John Milton, and inspired by watercolors by William Blake, has been called a work of "utopian grandeur, " "a masterpiece of craft, invention, and feeling, " "in scale and complexity, in a category by itself." More than 150 photographs capture each of the piece's 32 interconnected dances and are accompanied by the text of Milton's interwoven poems, "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso, " to which Handel set the musi Appreciative essays are by New Yorker critic and Morris biographer Joan Acocella, British critic Alastair Macaulay, and Threepenny Review editor Wendy Lesser.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.

ISBN:

1569246319

1569245800

OCLC:

45243297