Wilson on Waits and Woyzeck
Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
Prolific avant-garde director Robert Wilson is best known for co-writing and directing
the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach for the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s first Next Wave Festival (hogging BAM’s
lighting resources at the time). For this year’s Next Wave, Wilson directs
Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck
a devastating drama featuring music by gravelly-voiced rocker Tom Waits. Wilson
is in to discuss the work. Members of the Orion String Quartet have collaborated
with legendary Catalan cellist and composer Pablo Casals, among others. Today,
the ensemble performs live in the studio.
In 1992, Robert Wilson founded Watermill Center in Southampton as an international facility for new work in the arts, complete with workshops, residencies, educational programs, and a Center for Tribal Arts, which focuses on aesthetic and formal themes in global art.
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In 1992, Robert Wilson founded Watermill Center in Southampton as an international facility for new work in the arts, complete with workshops, residencies, educational programs, and a Center for Tribal Arts, which focuses on aesthetic and formal themes in global art.
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Half of the Orion String Quartet got its start in classical music as the children
of Eugene Phillips, a composer and former violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony.
In 1987, the Phillips brothers joined forces with a cellist and violist that
had spent some time at Marlboro.
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