Monk's take on death puts audiences at a loss. From: Newsday (Melville, NY) | Date: November 3, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Newsday. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Byline: Justin Davidson

Nov. 3--In the 40-year career of Meredith Monk, transience has endured as her bedrock theme. Music written only in her memory, melodies sung on abstract phonemes, stories pulverized into disconnected gestures, echoes of vaguely remembered rituals -- this theater of drones and yodels has always had a quality of fleetingness. Ostensibly, her newest stage work, "Impermanence," was born from the shock of loss, after her partner of two decades died. But in the premiere of its provisionally final version at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where it landed ...

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