Mark Morris' l' Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato. A Celebration

Escoffier, Jeffrey

ISBN 10: 1569246319 / ISBN 13: 9781569246313

Published by Marlowe & Company, New York, 2001

About this Item

This is a fine hardcover copy with a near fine dust jacket with very minor edgewear. SIGNED by Mark Morris, in black marker, with his distinctive signature, on the yellow endpaper. Not inscribed to anyone, just signed. Otherwise completely clean. Illustrated throughout with photographs by more than a dozen photographers including Martha Swope. Photographs in color and black & white. Essays by Joan Acocella, Wendy Lesser and Alastair Macaulay. List of performances of L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato. Bibliography. 12" high X 10" wide, 153 pages. A fine signed copy. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. Seller Inventory # 018001

Bibliographic Details

Title: Mark Morris' l' Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il ...

Publisher: Marlowe & Company, New York

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Artist.

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

Mark Morris' 1988 dance, L'Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato, set to music by Handel and poems by John Milton, and inspired by watercolors by William Blake, has been called a work of "utopian grandeur," "a masterpiece of craft, invention, and feeling," and "in scale and complexity, in a category by itself." From London to Berkeley to Houston, audiences ecstatically cheer for it. More than 200 photographs capture each of the piece's 32 interconnected dances and are accompanied by the text of Milton's interwoven poems, "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso," to which Handel set the music. New Yorker dance critic Joan Acocella provides a new essay; Alastair Macaulay and Wendy Lesser also offer appreciations. An overview of the making of L'Allegro, based on interviews with all of the principal artists and many of Mark Morris's dancers, provides an unprecedented glimpse at the creation of this modern-day masterpiece. A glorious celebration of one of the great dance masterworks of the twentieth century, the book contains over 200 color and black-and-white photographs plus reproductions of the Blake watercolors from which Mark Morris drew inspiration. "Possibly the most exhaustive examination of a single dance work ever published." —New York Times "An extraordinarily handsome new book ... A thorough and valuable critique and appreciation of this glorious dance work." —The New York Observer "A beautiful coffee-table book.... Elegantly photographed, edited, and produced. A treasured gift for a Morris fan."—Dance Magazine