Mark Morris Dance Group: L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato Set for THIRTEEN’s Great Performances

Mark Morris Dance Group: L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato Set for THIRTEEN’s Great Performances

Merriment and Milton are hardly synonymous, but the poet who penned Paradise Lost also inspired George Frideric Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, which concludes "Mirth, with thee we mean to live." Choreographer Mark Morris garnered international fame for this piece, considered a landmark achievement, and set to Handel's Baroque masterpiece, in which a colorful array of dancers embody the ecstasy of art that transforms