MODERN FOLK TALES AND ANCIENT STORIES: A CONVERSATION WITH BERYL KOROT AND STEVE REICH.

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The author talks with the makers of a video opera about the experience of collaboration. Topics include story development, folk tales, and portrayals of culture.

Beryl Korot and Steve Reich spoke with writer Jonathan Cott before the first performance of their video opera, The Cave, which premiered in Vienna in 1993. In 1997, they spoke with Andreas Molich-Zebhauser of Ensemble Modem before their Three Tales was shown as a work-in-progress in Bonn, Paris, New York and Spoleto, It...

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