2. March 2013
Steve Reich’s “Three Tales”, Konzerthaus, Berlin
I suddenly noticed that Konzerthaus Berlin hosted a work I never heard by a composer I admire: Steve Reich’s “video opera” Three Tales – the video part created by his wife Beryl Korot. The work interprets the development and failures of human ingenuity in three movements: One about the Hindenburg disaster, one about the atomic bomb experiments in the Bikini...