Mercy

Meredith Monk

Erschienen am 29.10.02 bei ECM New Series
Künstler: Meredith Monk
Genre: Klassik

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Mercy is a music theater collaboration between Meredith Monk and visual artist Ann Hamilton, described as "a meditation on the human capacity to both extend and withhold compassion, kindness, empathy, and mercy." It's scored for six dancer/vocalists, two keyboards, percussion, violin, and theremin. Music and choreography are by Monk, with installations by Hamilton. Conception, development, and direction were shared. This disc is the audio-only portion of the show with nary a liner note to sort things out a bit. Mercy represents a lovely evolution in Monk's work, with few surprises and departures within the unique and evocative genre she has created. The music is mostly very tonal in the traditional sense and lulling in a calmly minimalist way, though thoughtful and edgy, rarely letting one slip into comfortable inattention. Most of the singing is pure vocalise -- from lyrical singing and chanting to whispers and whoops -- trading the blatant sense of language for a gut experience that aims at something deeper and more atavistic than word setting may achieve. What good is all this without witnessing the stage setting by Hamilton and the remarkable dance and movement choreographed by Monk? Good enough to enjoy and merit total attention in the audio realm alone only, if one is a die-hard fan. There is simply no way to get a sense of Mercy without the visual element. The musical score to, say, Oklahoma! pretty much captures the entire sense of the show. But Mercy has sections called "doctor/patient," and "line 3 and prisoner," for example, which have almost no meaning stripped of the staging elements. That is the problem with getting Monk's theater works on audio-only discs; wait for the DVD of the entire production
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Scott Lehrer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Meredith Monk, Producer, Voice, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Hollenbeck, Marimba, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Theo Bleckmann, Voice, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Katie Geissinger, Voice, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ching Gonzalez, Voice, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Allison Easter, Voice, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bohdan Hilash, Clarinet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Allison Sniffin, Voice, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Bogdan, Producer