Mozart Dances
August 19, 2006
Mozart's Machinery...
By: John Rockwell for The New York Times
The response was friendly but muted on Thursday night at the New York State Theater after the first performance of Mark Morris's new, full-evening Mozart Dances. I can only assume that that was because people need to see this work again to appreciate fully its enormous riches. I certainly do. But after only a first viewing, I feel safe in pronouncing it a masterpiece, a triumph for the Mostly Mozart Festival, which commissioned it, and one of Mr. Morris's grandest achievements.
