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CTX Live Theatre, May 2024 Review: MoonFall by Red Nightfall Dance Theatre
and Density512,
“MoonFall creators have a scrupulous devotion to ballet, within which they create and innovate with a sense of liberation. […] All these ballets may have a proud place on the stage of world performing arts. Austin is so lucky.”
“‘If you were to look at the score (for Eight Songs for a Mad King) and try to figure it all out, you’d have to constantly stop to read all the words and follow all the arrows,” he explains. ‘It’s going to be challenging for the musicians to keep track of how the intricacies line up, since they’re not in time or tempo in any way.’ For Schnitzer, conducting… is akin to directing a theatrical performance.”
“While Babbage is recognized for his developments in early computing for creating the Difference Engine, it took Ada Lovelace to see its visionary potential to transform society. It's important to pay tribute to the women and men who created the future we now live in; Kenneth Froelich's Finite Differences and Graham Reynolds' The Difference Engine beautifully do just that."
Ragnar Kjartansson, S.S. Hangover, 2013
“Jacob Schnitzer, the co-artistic director of the Austin music collective Density512, will be playing French horn aboard the S.S. Hangover, and he's up for the challenge, though he's never before performed the same piece for hours, or performed on a boat at all. ‘Density512 is ... really interested in exploring the different ways that you might find classical music in today's environment, as well as whatever crazy things people are dreaming up,’ he says”.