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THEATER REVIEW; MUSICAL MYTH; Rinde Eckert is in tune with A.R.T.'s elegant, artful Orpheus X'
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For The Patriot Ledger
If musical theater is to become once again an art capable of
expressing the deepest, highest, most basic and most complex human
emotions - as it was in the times of Gluck, Mozart and Wagner - Rinde
Eckert is one of the people who may help make that happen. Eckert is
a composer/lyricist/dramatist whose music dramas for small ensembles
contain elements of chamber opera, performance art, video art and
even radio drama. They combine mythic themes and treatments with
contemporary, ordinary-life characters and situations, expressed in
words and music that are elegant, artful ...
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Uncharted highways; Rinde Eckert takes `Ulysses' on a new journey.(Scene)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; Byline: ROBERT NESTI To say that Rinde Eckert likes to shake things up is an understatement. "I can't avoid eclecticism...Tickets: $34-$68. Call 617-547-8300. Caption: (Head shot of Rinde Eckert) STAFF PHOTO BY MICHAEL FEIN
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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MELVILLE MANIA COMPOSER RINDE ECKERT COMBINES MUSIC, THEATER WITH `AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES'.(PREVIEW)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...GREG HAYMES STAFF WRITER Composer-writer-performer Rinde Eckert isn't afraid of tackling the great works of literature...GREAT WHITE ``AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES'' Starring: Rinde Eckert and Nora Cole Director: David Schweizer When: 8 p.m...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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RINDE ECKERT KNOWS HOW TO SING A RICH STORY.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Actor, singer, writer and multi-instrumentalist Rinde Eckert has the voice of a choirboy and a Williams Burroughs way with words. His new CD, ``Story In, Story Out,'' presents the...
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Performance; Rinde Eckert's Vocal Virtuosity; At Dance Place, Motley & Mystifying Moments
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...evaluation for these events. For how else to confront this brave, and very uneven, new world? That said, performance artist Rinde Eckert's appearance over the weekend at Dance Place was one of the more cogent and disciplined that I've experienced. The San...
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Melville Birthday Lecture: "What Melville Means to Me": A Panel Discussion: with Rinde Eckert and Ricardo Pitts-Wiley.(Discussion)
Magazine article from: Leviathan
; ...theatrical artists who wove an elastic monkey-rope of words in response to the question of "What Melville Means To Me." Rinde Eckert began the program by singing, without accompaniment, Father Mapple's aria from And God Created Great Whales, Eckert...
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Orpheus X.(Theater review)
Magazine article from: Daily Variety
; ...with music and text by Rinde Eckert. Video by Denise Marika...1 HOUR, 35 MIN. Orpheus Rinde Eckert Eurydice Suzan Hanson...smiling. Multihyphenate Rinde Eckert and helmer Robert Woodruff...reshaped the story of Orpheus--musician and mourner...
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MAKING A MYTH MODERN WITH 'ORPHEUS X,' ART TEAM TAKES NEW LOOK AT LEGEND OF LOVE AND LOSS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Repertory Theatre's new work "Orpheus X," which starts previews...Elliot Norton Award, this "Orpheus" delights in taking a familiar...composer, writer, and performer Rinde Eckert. A new element this time around...carrying a rock star named Orpheus knocks her down? "I thought...
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`X' factor missing in `Orpheus'.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...Cambridge, through April 23. "Orpheus X" assaults the senses with...of three characters is clear. Orpheus (composer Rinde Eckert) is a self-absorbed rock star...a traffic accident by the cab Orpheus was in. His obsession with her...
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EIF Review: A weekend of hits, misses and myths: Orpheus X
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ORPHEUS X *** ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE...of the idea at the heart of Rinde Eckert's 21st-century version of the myth of Orpheus, staged for the American Repertory...even beautiful. And Eckert's Orpheus - played by himself as a bald...
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THEATER PREVIEW; Eckert molds myths into modern life; Eclectic actor recreates Orpheus'
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
; For The Patriot Ledger Rinde Eckert talks at breakneck speed...premiere of his new work, "Orpheus X," for the American Repertory...in common with the story of Orpheus who travels to the underworld...won't be surprised that his Orpheus has evolved into a rock star...
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