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Book Review

Shadowtime

LOS ANGELES TIMES, December 18, 2005

Reviewed by Mark Swed

2005: SHAKEN & STIRRED
Classical Music: Actually, it's alive and well

Bring on the poets
Intrepid poets are showing a new interest in libretto-writing. Charles Bernstein published "Shadowtime," his arrestingly fanciful contribution to Brian Ferneyhough's "thought opera" about the influential theorist Walter Benjamin. Anne Carson titled her new collection "Decreation" after a luminous feminist libretto she's written as a stand-alone text. Don Davis turned to Los Angeles poet Kate Gale, whose text was translated into Spanish for "Rio de Sangre." Weirdly, the Los Angeles Master Chorale translated her lines back into English for surtitles when it presented the opera-in-progress.