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Musically, Die Soldaten was called unperformable often during its early years, one critic saying it had taken the twelve-tone “atonal” style to its outer limits.

DesignerBlog Will 2008

Musically, Die Soldaten was called unperformable often during its early years, one critic saying it had taken the twelve-tone “atonal” style to its outer limits.

Archive 2008-07-01 Will 2008

Performances were few and far between for a while until musicians and singers learned how to perform the “unperformable” opera Franz Schubert’s Symphony #9 and Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” were also called unperformable when first presented to the Vienna Philharmonic and the Hungarian State Opera respectively.

DesignerBlog Will 2008

Performances were few and far between for a while until musicians and singers learned how to perform the “unperformable” opera Franz Schubert’s Symphony #9 and Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” were also called unperformable when first presented to the Vienna Philharmonic and the Hungarian State Opera respectively.

Archive 2008-07-01 Will 2008

"I really wonder, as an unperformable thought experiment, whether if the MAMMOTH book had included a token one or two writers of color or female gender, if these writers would have returned their paychecks or even spoken out when the current controversy arose."

TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009

I really wonder, as an unperformable thought experiment, whether if the MAMMOTH book had included a token one or two writers of color or female gender, if these writers would have returned their paychecks or even spoken out when the current controversy arose.

TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009

I really wonder, as an unperformable thought experiment, whether if the MAMMOTH book had included a token one or two writers of color or female gender, if these writers would have returned their paychecks or even spoken out when the current controversy arose.

TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009

I saw a version years ago which made me think the play was a closet drama, to be read not performed, perhaps unperformable.

Sexist split infinitive Jes 2009

Anthony Tommasini likes it "a miraculous realization of an opera once deemed unperformable".

Compare and Contrast 10 Lisa Hirsch 2008

Anthony Tommasini likes it "a miraculous realization of an opera once deemed unperformable".

Archive 2008-07-01 Lisa Hirsch 2008