From an essay The Listener & The Player--musing on a quote from Wynston Marsalis on the importance of the musician versus the audience in musical performance.
Program Notes/Essay from a staged performance of T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland
T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land portrays a poetic purgatory where life ebbs and flows between dream and nightmare. Through the poem’s cacophonous voices and shifting images, Eliot suggests that the only way...