All of which is to say, of course, that titles cannot help but matter.
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"It is by neither content nor arrangement nor even by its color that a garden may be said to be so named; gardens are not what they contain."
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“We have before us three staples of canonic genre: the sonata, the quartet, and the quintet. But reality is never that simple. One is an archaism, one a subversion, and the other an act of invention, though they all parade as self-evident. Which is to say that ‘genre’ is never a given; it's what you do with your medium that counts.”
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“Ariadne’s thread begins to unravel: all the walls of the maze, new or old, feel the same.”
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“In the operas of Liza Lim, performance and ritual have an imaginary sorcery of their own, which creates space for real humans, cultures, languages, and histories to negotiate their relationship through the stories they tell.”
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