FILM
Status Quo: Dance (for Full Orchestra)
Status Quo: Dance (for Full Orchestra)
2019
HD video 13 mins color/sound.
In 1938, the Leipzig-born and NY-based ultra-modernist composer Johanna M. Beyer (1888—1944) composed two fragments of music intended as part of her visionary unrealized political opera Status Quo—the prelude Music of the Spheres and the final movement Dance (for Full Orchestra).