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the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down is an opera created in the early 1980s by director Robert Wilson to music by Philip Glass, David Byrne, Gavin Bryars and others. The vast five-act work has never been performed whole.
The first part of The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down by Robert Wilson with collaborative effort of David Byrne, Philip Glass, Gavin Bry...
Album. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1999 CD release of "The CIVIL warS: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down. Act V - The Rome Section" on Discogs.
Conceived for the international arts festival that would accompany the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down was to have been a day-long performance in five parts, involving writers, composers, and performers from many different countries.
15 de dic. de 2006 · Wilson's trademark theater of images--as opposed to narrative--took its inspiration from Matthew Brady's grimly eloquent photographs of the American Civil War and mixes figures from classical mythology with iconic representations of Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Robert E. Lee, and the Italian revolutionary Garibaldi.
Like many theatrical ventures, Robert Wilson's the CIVIL warS has had a somewhat patchy history. Created for Los Angeles's 1984 Olympic Arts Festival, the five-part, multi-nation, multi-composer epic never made it to curtain time at that city's Shrine Auditorium.
James Harrison Wilson (September 2, 1837 – February 23, 1925) was a topographic engineer in the United States Army and a Major General in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
