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	Three Tales
		Three Tales is in fact the second Reich/Korot collaboration after The Cave, which explored the roots of Christianity, Judaism and Islam through the story of Abraham.
		'Three Tales' is at the Barbican, London EC2, from Sept 18 to 21.
		Three Tales contemplates three episodes from the history of 20th-century technology: the disaster that befell the Hindenburg airship in 1937; the atom bomb tests that ravaged the Bikini atoll in the years after World War Two; and the cloning of Dolly the sheep in 1997.
	www.stevereich.com /threetales_rev.html (6170 words)

	'Three Tales'
		"Three Tales,'' which had its premiere last year in Vienna, looks at three decisive moments in the march of 20th century science: the crash of the German zeppelin Hindenburg in 1937 in New Jersey, atomic testing on Bikini Island just after World War II and the cloning of Dolly the sheep in 1997.
		At times the three sopranos and two tenors became a kind of disembodied choir, intoning a Biblical phrase in faintly dissonant harmonies while the chamber musicians punched out metallic riffs and the words themselves bounded on and off the screen in giant typescript.
		Subtle and blatant, "Three Tales'' was an unsettling but exhilarating look at assorted hopes for the future -- past and present.
	www.suntimes.com /output/delacoma/cst-ftr-tales06.html (601 words)

	Boosey & Hawkes Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For the third tale we were originally going to use the explosion of the Challenger spacecraft, but we soon felt this was one disaster too many for the piece.
		Three Tales exists on a single screen, unlike The Cave where the complexities came from the relationships between the images and the timings of the images on five different screens.
		In working on Three Tales, with a single image comprised of many different sources, there were many ideas that occurred to me, or briefly appeared, that I was not able to develop because of the needs of this particular work.
	www.boosey.com /pages/opera/OperaNews.asp?NewsID=10260&MusicID=15153 (3069 words)

	Opera Columbus \| Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Opera Columbus enriches Central Ohio, educating, enlightening, and entertaining people of all ages and backgrounds through the live music theatre experience by employing a diverse and far-flung supply of creative talent, ideas, and artistic energies.
		Opera Columbus emerged in the spring of 1981.
		Over the years, Opera Columbus has worked toward two essential goals: to establish the company's artistic reputation on a national level and to affirm that Opera Columbus is deeply rooted in the life of its own community.
	www.operacolumbus.org /information (942 words)

	Three Tales
		The paradox of the fascinating digital documentary video opera ''Three Tales'' - something its married creators, the composer Steve Reich and the video artist Beryl Korot, openly embrace - is that while the work explores the perils to humanity of unchecked advances in technology, it uses those advances toward innovative artistic ends.
		The second tale, ''Bikini,'' deals with the United States government's forced relocation of the people of the Pacific island of Bikini from 1946 to 1954 in order to open that area to the testing of nuclear blasts.
		Still, ''Three Tales'' is the work of an imaginative and skillful composer who cares about clarity of texture and never just piles on repetitive riffs, droning chants and spinning figurations.
	www.lichtensteiger.de /three_tales.html (555 words)

	Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly
		Three Tales by Beryl Korot and Steve Reich debuted at the Vienna Festival in May and arrived at BAM last week.
		Putting aside the ambiguity implicit in using technology to dis technology, Three Tales, the opera, is a chilling commentary on the power of 20th century technology and the possibilities for use, and misuse, that we humans wield.
		Three Tales is visually driven although Reich says that he wrote the music first then sent it upstairs to Korot who then created the visual/video to go with it.
	www.sequenza21.com /102102.html (2670 words)

	Baltimore Opera - Study Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It seems ironic, then, that Offenbach never intended this act as his last word: Antonia's was to be the second of three tales, and her death the middle of the story, not the end.
		Thus a series of pragmatic, posthumous decisions shaped the opera's traditional form, with Antonia's scena and final trio as the musical climax, and her death as the culmination of the drama.
		As in the tale of Antonia, Romantic lyricism becomes a fatal snare for the listener-artist: Giulietta's haunting Barcarolle and seduction duet with Hoffmann prove as deceitful as they are captivating, her voice an instrument of the villain Dapertutto's will.
	www.baltimoreopera.com /studyguide/hoffmann_04.asp (993 words)

	Taking opera for a spin \| csmonitor.com
		Meanwhile, American operas written by living composers are not just winning premières by major opera companies – they are being produced for a second or third time, a hint that they may survive to become part of the repertoire at opera companies.
		Those who are involved in producing opera and in training the next generation of opera singers say that the art form's long-term survival depends on producing a steady stream of new American works.
		Whatever the opera's style, he says, an "American spirit comes through the composers and their works," even though it can be hard to pinpoint exactly what it is. One distinction can be in the choice of raw materials.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/1101/p13s02-almp.htm (1195 words)

	Art:21 . Beryl Korot's "Three Tales" \| PBS
		Made in collaboration with husband and composer Steve Reich, "Three Tales" is an opera which explores humanity’s relationship to technology.
		The prologue for the "Three Tales" starts with the book of Genesis, lending a mythic dimension to the historically topical acts which follow.
		Sprinkled throughout the opera is commentary from religious and scientific communities, offering contrasting and sometimes surprisingly complimentary viewpoints on man’s reliance on technology and his blind faith in science.
	www.pbs.org /art21/artists/korot/card2.html (260 words)

	Boosey & Hawkes Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		But "opera" implies a degree of drama that neither the music, nor the visuals, attempts to meet.
		Three Tales takes in a wide sweep of 20th century technology, exploring three very different events - the construction and destruction of the airship Hindenberg in 1937, the first tests of the hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll in 1946, and finally the cloning of Dolly the sheep in 1996.
		Though it's possible to connect the processes in Three Tales to Reich's earlier techniques in City Life and the string quartet Different Trains, this piece represents a quantum leap in complexity and technological achievement, and no other musical work I know comes near its imaginative synthesis.
	www.boosey.com /pages/opera/news/further_info.asp?NewsID=10761&LangID= (327 words)

	BOMB Magazine: Steve Reich and Beryl Korot by Julia Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Exploring the human relationship to technology, Three Tales offers up the question of where our responsibility lies.
		The issues in Three Tales have momentous portent, but at the same time the piece is incredibly personal.
		It was so moving for me as a friend and fellow artist to see Three Tales there in the studio with them.
	www.bombsite.com /reich/reich.html (281 words)

	Steve Reich's Challenging Commentary in Words, Music and Video By John Shinners
		Three Tales (1998-2002) explores the impact of twentieth-century technology, from the fiery crash of the zeppelin Hindenburg at Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937, to the testing of atomic bombs over the Bikini Atoll in 1946, to the cloning of "Dolly" the sheep in 1997.
		Three Tales has all the signatures of Reich's style: constant, rhythmically syncopated pulses; phased melodies (where one melodic line gradually drifts out of sync); fast allegro-like rhythms played over slower, lower ground rhythms (reminiscent of baroque technique); and musical momentum achieved through regularly shifting tonalities.
		Rather like opera or popular song, where reading the lyrics without the music is usually a literary letdown, on paper this might sound clichéd; but musically and visually it is powerful.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /Magazine/music/0404/classical/reich.htm (1814 words)

	Opera 'Hoffmann' a TV Dazzler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Opera as show biz, for movies and television, is now a reality, transporting improbable plots and hefty singers from stage to screen with varying results.
		As show biz, the Royal Opera's dazzling new "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" at Covent Garden, staged by the film director John Schlesinger in his opera debut, is being praised by London critics as an eye-filling if controversial triumph.
		The opera is, essentially, three tales of the loves of a young poet, a flashback sandwiched between a prologue and epilogue when Hoffmann, increasingly drunk and depressed and foiled by his evil rival, Lindorf, finally forsakes love for his art.
	www.tenorissimo.com /domingo/Articles/ny010281.htm (990 words)

	MPR Music - the Handmaid's Tale
		It's the only opera by a living composer, it's the only opera written in almost a century, and its vision of a repressive future state is a far cry from the intimate drama of Traviata or the spinning wheels and sailing ships of The Flying Dutchman.
		The first is what could be called the opera of social concern, operas that, in one way or another, address social issues of the contemporary world.
		The three "tales" are the Hindenburg disaster, A-bomb testing in the Pacific, and the cloning of Dolly, the sheep.
	music.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/0305_handmaid/trends.shtml (727 words)

	REICH BIOGRAPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 2000 he was awarded the Schuman Prize from Columbia University, the Montgomery Fellowship from Dartmouth College, the Regent’s Lectureship at the University of California at Berkeley, an honorary doctorate from the California Institute of the Arts and was named Composer of the Year by Musical America magazine.
		Three Tales is a three act music theater work in which historical film and video footage, video taped interviews, photographs, text, and specially constructed stills are recreated on computer, transferred to video tape and projected on one large screen.
		Three Tales was premiered at the Vienna Festival in 2002 and subsequently toured all over Europe, America, Australia and Hong Kong.
	www.uwm.edu /~schommer/final/steveobio.htm (663 words)

	classical music - andante - three tales -- a high-tech meditation on technology
		The Garden of Eden and the Tree of Knowledge, its major "prop," are central to Three Tales, premiered at the Vienna Festwochen in mid-May and presented for the first time in America at Spoleto Festival USA 2002.
		Three Tales completes the video opera that began with Hindenburg (premiered in its original version at Spoleto Festival USA in 1998); the 75-minute triptych now includes "acts" on the atomic testing at Bikini Atoll and Dolly the cloned sheep.
		Three Tales, compared to The Cave and Hindenburg, is smooth and seamless, with all images projected on a single screen.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=17297 (936 words)

	Three Tales by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot - PopMatters Concert Review
		Of the three tales, I found "Hindenburg" to be the most musically satisfying, mostly because of the intense ring of the countertenors repeating the line, "It could not have been a technical matter," creating a "speech melody" supported by the undulating pulse that has signified Reich's work for decades.
		In a sense, Three Tales is a bittersweet love letter romanticizing the tragic beauty of destruction and the inevitable folly of human achievement.
		In short, Three Tales is a gathering of audience members confronting tragedy in a form that has been surpassed only by the ancient Greeks, only this "Euripides" has a musical score played forcefully by an instrument ensemble, singers and a large screen projecting perfectly timed portraits of technology.
	www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/r/reich-steve-021019.shtml (1581 words)

	The Canadian Opera Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Folk tales from all cultures are an important part of the school curriculum and the tales collected by the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the 19th century can still hold children rapt.
		Burry's opera connects three tales through the story of the brothers themselves, young men finding their fame and fortune unexpectedly in the neglected old stories they have collected.
		Burry says, "These tales have been adapted for the stage and screen in countless variations, and I thought it would be interesting to not only present the actual stories, but their source, in fact, the story behind the story.
	www.coc.ca /education/ensemble_gregor.php (673 words)

	San Francisco Symphony American Mavericks Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		THREE TALES IS ABOUT three well-known events from the early, middle and late twentieth century, Hindenburg, Bikini, Dolly.
		Throughout the three acts, from time to time, there will be comments by witnesses to these events, as well as by members of the scientific, historical, and religious communities.
		Again, the three tenors sing in canon and again their canon is augmented and joined with a newsreel announcer's voice that also is stretched out in time by computer to produce a sound equivalent to the slow-motion video.
	www.americanmavericks.com /prog_notes/june_17.html (954 words)

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	"The Three Hermits," a church opera by Stephen Paulus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hearing a fisherman tell of three strange old hermits who live on a remote island, the bishop resolves to go there and deliver some religious instruction to them.
		As the moon shines over the water and the bishop is sitting on deck with his mother, she notices a disturbance behind them on the water.
		These tales were imbued with remote antiquity, and one felt in them the accumulation of centuries of sound wisdom...Papa used to listen to him with great interest, every day making him recite something new, and Petrovich never failed to reply.
	www.stephenpaulus.com /OperaTheThreeHermits.htm (1129 words)

	EUFS: The Tales of Hoffman
		The Tales of Hoffman - the Archers' ballet-opera adaptation of Offenbach's opera about the German Romantic author E T A Hoffman and his stories - is an unusual, magical, cinematically brilliant movie that deserves to be seen.
		With Tales the Archers sought to take their notion of a "composed film" - first seen in The Red Shoes's incredible 15-minute ballet sequence - as far as it could go, integrating sound and image to a degree rarely seen in non-animated cinema (another instance being the battle sequences in Eisenstein/ Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky).
		Powell and Pressburger succeed in combining several art forms — opera, in the shape of Jacques Offenbach's 1881 source opera, itself inspired by the fantastical tales of the German Romantic author E.T.A. Hoffman; ballet and cinema — into a work that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/the_tales_of_hoffman.html (1188 words)

	Zeek: Jay's Head: Are We All Asleep?
		I was lucky enough to see Steve Reich's beautiful new opera, Three Tales, at Brooklyn Academy of Music this past week, part of the BAM Next Wave Festival.
		Three Tales isn't an argument like Moore's; it doesn't take a single line on the questions it poses about humankind and technology.
		Two of the three tales, one of the atom bomb tests over Bikini, the other of Dolly the sheep and the frontiers of cloning and artificial intelligence, juxtapose video and sound clips of the massive artificiality of human technology with Biblical verses.
	www.zeek.net /jay_02113.htm (411 words)

	usOperaweb - 'Three Tales' - Beryl Korot and Steve Reich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The current piece [Three Tales] becomes more accessible because it’s on a single screen and can be put on a DVD or VHS tape and popped into peoples’ television sets as well as being presented in a theater.
		We had to decide what it was we wanted to do together in terms of content and we came up with these three stories from the beginning, middle and late 20th century as a way to begin to think of ourselves in relation to some aspects of 20th century technology.
		Three Tales is scored for four percussion, two pianos, string quartet, three tenors and two sopranos.
	www.usoperaweb.com /2002/september/threetales.htm (5441 words)

	GO Brooklyn
		Reich and video artist Beryl Korot have teamed up this season for "Three Tales," a cautionary tale about the dangers of technology, demonstrated by the Hindenburg disaster, 1945 atomic bomb tests and cloned sheep Dolly.
		While "Three Tales" weds Reich's current music with digital video, French-Algerian choreographer Angelin Preljocaj melds his singularly modernist dance style to two difficult works from both ends of the 20th century: iconoclastic German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's bizarre "Helikopter" Quartet (from 1993) and Igor Stravinsky's brash, brutal "The Rite of Spring" (from 1913).
		"Three Tales" will be performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Howard Gilman Opera House [30 Lafayette Ave.] on Oct. 16, Oct. 18 and Oct. 19 at 7:30 pm; tickets are $25 and $45.
	www.go-brooklyn.com /html/issues/_vol25/25_39/reich.html (318 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Musical Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Opera houses are supposed to be fantasy places, where outlandish lovers meet and villains spiral to their inevitable fates.
		The "Three Tales" company—consisting of the members of the Ensemble Modern and the singers of Synergy Vocals, all under the direction of Bradley Lubman—performed like a flawless machine.
		What is more, "Three Tales," for all its unemotive sleekness, emerges as a surprisingly fervent morality play, pointing a minatory finger not so much at technology itself as at the Faustian hubris that drives it forward.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/music?030106crmu_music (1460 words)

	The Music Show - 23/11/2002: Steve Reich
		You’ve mentioned ‘Three Tales’, perhaps before I would like you to give us a thumbnail sketch of the piece, but the whole business of bringing pictures to the voices, presumably affects to some extent, the way you would treat those voices, because you’re not treating them any longer purely as musical sounds, is that right?
		Well you know, the word ‘tale’ in English has the overtones of cautionary tale, Canterbury Tales and so on, and of course these are cautionary tales, and at the same time we are using computers and samplers and other equipment, videotape, video cameras, to make this piece.
		If people are going to make a piece about technology which has any cautionary tales, they I think need to be people who’ve had some experience with that material, if they’re going to really bring any resonance to the piece.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/music/mshow/s746931.htm (2873 words)

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