{"id":263,"date":"2013-11-24T07:35:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T14:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2013-11-24T07:45:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T14:45:38","slug":"news-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/news-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"News Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"

It turns out\u2014to no one’s great surprise\u2014that Mark Morris<\/a>\u2019s L’Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato<\/em>, now a quarter-century old, is as amazing as it ever was.\u00a0In fact, like many of the best works of art, it seems to have accumulated extra layers of meaning in the course of its long life. \u00a0Or so it seemed to me as I watched it on Saturday at Lincoln Center, exactly twenty-five years to the day after its first performance. If anything, this grand evening-length performance\u2014a celebration of Milton’s seventeenth-century poetry and Handel’s eighteenth-century music as well as Morris’s abundant choreographic imagination\u2014was richer and more galvanizing than ever.<\/p>\n

Part of what I found so moving, this time, was its splendidly persuasive utopianism. How can a work that begins in melancholy and ends in mirth\u2014that starts in autumn, essentially, and concludes in spring\u2014strike us as so beautifully true? I can’t answer this question. \u00a0I can only say that if this great work comes to your vicinity, you should see it, preferably as often as possible. I attended two of its three recent performances at the White Light Festival<\/a>, and my only regret is that I didn’t see the third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It turns out\u2014to no one’s great surprise\u2014that Mark Morris\u2019s L’Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato, now a quarter-century old, is as amazing as it ever was.\u00a0In fact, like many of the best works of art, it seems to have accumulated … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[157,146,65,158],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-lesser-blog","tag-lallegro","tag-lincoln-center","tag-mark-morris","tag-white-light-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threepennyreview.com\/lesserblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}