November 16, 2008
Kurtag’s ’Kafka Fragments’ at Cal Performances
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When Peter Sellars called photographer David Michalek to talk about his staging of György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments, he described the world that singer Dawn Upshaw and violinist Geoff Nuttall would inhabit during their hour-long performance of the hermetic composer’s settings of Kafka’s text.
Sellars and Upshaw “felt there was something extraordinary in this piece but it needed to be contextualized differently so that people could find a way...