Transcript: New Meredith Monk Opera Has No Words

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NPR All Things Considered
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April 13, 1994
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NOAH ADAMS, Host: A new opera by Meredith Monk titled Atlas has now been recorded and released on CD. Atlas has been performed in this country in Houston, Columbus, Ohio, Minneapolis, and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Eighteen singers, a small orchestra telling the story of a quest, a young woman's travels. Some of the images are simple, the smell of coffee in the morning, and some soar into fantasy and space travel. And this is an opera without actual words. The singers sing notes. Meredith Monk employs what she calls an extended vocal technique.

MEREDITH MONK, Composer: I guess I always have a really hard time with ...

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