Richard Ayres Peter Pan , Wales Millennium Centre
2015; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE; Volume: 69; Issue: 274 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0040298215000406
ISSN1980-542X
Autores Tópico(s)Musicology and Musical Analysis
ResumoThe madcap, hallucinatory adventures of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan would seem to offer the perfect musico-dramatic vehicle for Richard Ayres. His instrumental works and first formal opera, The Cricket Recovers (2005), are gleeful acts of polystylistic sabotage that might themselves hail from Neverland; the former are often wedded to some strange, dramatic scenario, and the latter is a fantasy about a depressive cricket featuring a would-be tree-climbing elephant. In Ayres's scores, conventional structures, instrumentation and musical materials are juxtaposed, shaken up and hurled about like toys with the accidental radicalism of the child who innocently asks the questions that adults dare not.
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