{"id":23049,"date":"2014-11-08T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T23:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=23049"},"modified":"2015-12-22T09:33:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T14:33:22","slug":"a-near-perfect-blending-of-music-poetry-and-whimsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/11\/08\/a-near-perfect-blending-of-music-poetry-and-whimsy\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW | A near-perfect blending of music, poetry and whimsy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Art of Time Ensemble gives a fascinating look at how music and the written word have collided and intersected throughout the ages.<\/h3>\n

By: Michael Vincent<\/strong> Special to the Star, Published on Sat Nov 08 2014<\/p>\n

The Art of Time Ensemble<\/h3>\n

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The Art of Time Ensemble, with Margaret Atwood, Thom Allison, Gregory Hoskins, Carla Huhtanen. Friday, Harbourfront Centre Theatre.<\/em><\/p>\n

In a 1950s interview with Robert Craft<\/a>, Igor Stravinsky was asked to give his opinion about the use of music as accompaniment to recitation. His response: \u201cDo not ask, sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Stravinsky\u2019s misgivings, the Art of Time Ensemble (whose aim is to go beyond the classical repertoire)<\/a> opened its 15th season on Friday night, with a fascinating and varied look at how music and the written word have collided and intersected throughout the ages.<\/p>\n

Following a series of recited poems, sung poems, tone poems, poets as musicians and musicals inspired by poetry, it was a variety show approach that rapidly swung back and forth from light entertainment to deeply affecting music…<\/p>\n

To read the rest of the review see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In a 1950s interview with Robert Craft, Igor Stravinsky was asked to give his opinion about the use of music as accompaniment to recitation. His response: \u201cDo not ask, sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Stravinsky\u2019s misgivings, the Art of Time Ensemble (whose aim is to go beyond the classical repertoire) opened its 15th season on Friday night, with a fascinating and varied look at how music and the written word have collided and intersected throughout the ages.<\/p>\n

Following a series of recited poems, sung poems, tone poems, poets as musicians and musicals inspired by poetry, it was a variety show approach that rapidly swung back and forth from light entertainment to deeply affecting music…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":23030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117,76,19,49,52],"tags":[276,657,5093,2095,3296],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/MG_1818.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-5ZL","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23049"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23057,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23049\/revisions\/23057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23049"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}