Article: Devotion to creativity - Meredith Monk expresses her artistic genius in 'A Celebration Service'.

Meredith Monk may be the most misunderstood creative artist working today. That's because she's so good at everything she does. Impossible to categorize, for more than 30 years she's been singing, composing, writing and directing her unique brand of musical theater, making films and visual art.

She's even a certifiable genius, having received a prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the so-called "genius grant," in 1995. And she's won devoted fans around the world through performances and recordings.

But speaking from New York City - fresh from mounting her elegant, first-ever commercial art gallery show there - Monk said with some frustration, ...

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