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blast from the present
http://parterre.com/ ?p=1443La Cieca has just learned that half a million dollars’ worth of the Met’s prime orchestra tickets (usually $175 - $220) for Doctor Atomic will be made available to the public at $30. The effort “to put on significant contemporary works that are accessible to everyone” is bankrolled by Agnes Varis,
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Illuminating the Projectionists
http://blog.metoperafamily.org/ metopera/ 2008/ 10/ 02/ illuminating-the-project…Tune in to more commentary from projection artists Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer of 59 Productions” A series of declassified documents marked “Library of Congress” flashed across white panels. A frenzy of equations and diagrams, followed by a cross section of the bomb, floated across a scrim.
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An Atomic Project in Manhattan
http://hollisterhovey.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 10/ atomic-project-in-manhattan.htmlI do not love atomic bombs. However, I have an extreme fondness for promotional material supporting an opera about atomic bombs. Truly, if we could focus on covering the world's surfaces in chalkboard paint (and chalk), we might not have to worry about bombs at all.
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They Call the Little Ones Sputniks
http://blog.metoperafamily.org/ metopera/ 2008/ 09/ 29/ they-call-the-little-one…They Call the Little Ones Sputniks Posted by Caroline Cooper on 9/29/2008 14 days to the Doctor Atomic premiere! “It looks like a big atomic explosion, doesn’t it?” Charles Sheek, Assistant Editor at the Met, was walking through the Met lobby but stopped to observe a sight not seen in over forty
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Shadowing the Scientists
http://blog.metoperafamily.org/ metopera/ 2008/ 09/ 24/ shadowing-the-scientists…19 days to the Doctor Atomic premiere! Listen to choreographer Dawson on his “free agents” “So you like the falling towards the screen?”—“It was better when it ends with your arms outstretched.”—“Last time I was too far forward.
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Listening to Manhattan Project Veterans
http://blog.metoperafamily.org/ metopera/ 2008/ 09/ 19/ listening-to-manhattan-p…Listening to Manhattan Project Veterans Posted by Caroline Cooper on 9/19/2008 24 Days to the Doctor Atomic premiere! Along with all its thrilling theatricality and musical challenges, Doctor Atomic has also presented some unexpected pleasures as we connect with members of the scientific, political,
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“By the 800th Time, I Got it Right”
http://blog.metoperafamily.org/ metopera/ 2008/ 09/ 18/ %e2%80%9cby-the-800th-ti…25 Days to the Doctor Atomic premiere! Richard Paul Fink stalked across the makeshift staging area, a ringer for Edward Teller. Gerald Finley evoked a spindly J. Robert Oppenheimer with his porkpie hat and cigarette. Sasha Cooke lounged in a long robe and espadrilles, capturing the forever thirsty Kitty Oppenheimer as she reached for her prop martini glass.
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Doctor Atomic (2006). John Adams /creation and creator/
http://rgable.typepad.com/ aworks/ 2008/ 09/ doctor-atomc-20.htmlImage via Wikipedia The Metropolitan Opera blog on technical rehearsal of the John Adams opera: “The bomb itself was a crazy looking thing,” he [set designer Julian Crouch] said. “Most bombs are honed through technology, but the atomic bomb was incredibly homemade. It was like a one-off.
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Bomb’s Away: The Met Welcomes Doctor Atomic
http://blog.metoperafamily.org/ metopera/ 2008/ 09/ 15/ bomb%e2%80%99s-away-the-…Bomb’s Away: The Met Welcomes Doctor Atomic Posted by Caroline Cooper on 9/15/2008 28 Days to the Doctor Atomic premiere! Through the last week of August, the M, N and Q rows of the orchestra section at the Metropolitan Opera were covered with sturdy platforms balancing a scattering of lights, Mac laptops, books of laminated mockups.
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Doctor Atomic (2006). John Adams /new "new"/
http://rgable.typepad.com/ aworks/ 2008/ 09/ doctor-atomic-2.htmlSoundamus is a service to flag new releases of artists you listen to. You enter your last.fm username e.g. eastmp and it generates a list of relevant new recordings. Among other items, my list has: the DVD of Adams' Doctor Atomic, out today (at least on amazon.fr).
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