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* The Modern World, pages on: [http://www.themodernword.com/beckett/beckett_feldman.html Feldman and Beckett] [http://www.themodernword.com/beckett/beckett_feldman_neither.html ''Neither''] |
* The Modern World, pages on: [http://www.themodernword.com/beckett/beckett_feldman.html Feldman and Beckett] [http://www.themodernword.com/beckett/beckett_feldman_neither.html ''Neither''] |
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* [http://ssl.adhost.com/jazzloft/baskets/pos.cfm?CD=9779 JazzLoft page on recording of ''Neither''] |
* [https://web.archive.org/20070927032941/http://ssl.adhost.com/jazzloft/baskets/pos.cfm?CD=9779 JazzLoft page on recording of ''Neither''] |
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* [http://themmixdown.com/2010/01/12/neither-wealth-nor-splendor/ Neither Wealth Nor Splendor: Getting Morton Feldman’s and Samuel Beckett’s 1977 opera NEITHER from a Workshop Performance in NYC to the Konzerthaus in Vienna and the Obstacles Concerned.] |
* [http://themmixdown.com/2010/01/12/neither-wealth-nor-splendor/ Neither Wealth Nor Splendor: Getting Morton Feldman’s and Samuel Beckett’s 1977 opera NEITHER from a Workshop Performance in NYC to the Konzerthaus in Vienna and the Obstacles Concerned.] |
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Revision as of 04:12, 23 February 2016
Neither is the only opera by Morton Feldman, dating from 1977. The libretto consists of a 16-line poem by Samuel Beckett. Beckett and Feldman had met in Berlin in 1976, with plans for a collaboration for Rome Opera. Beckett told Feldman that he himself did not like opera, and Feldman had agreed with Beckett's sentiment.[1]
The work is for a soprano soloist and orchestra.[2] It could more properly be called a monodrama, but given Feldman's own disdain for opera, it can be described as an anti-opera.
Recordings
- HatHut, hat (now) ART 180: Sarah Leonard, soprano; Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt; Zoltán Peskó, conductor
- Col Legno, WWE 1CD 20081: Petra Hoffman, soprano; Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Kwamé Ryan, conductor
References
- ^ Strauss, Walter A., Review of Samuel Beckett and Music by Mary Bryden (2000). SubStance, 29 (2, Issue 92): pp. 104-108.
- ^ http://www.universaledition.com/Morton-Feldman/composers-and-works/composer/220/work/3841