Three Tales is a contemporary video-opera in three acts, composed by American composer Steve Reich in 2002. Beryl Korot, the wife of the composer, created the visuals which accompany the music written for string quartet and audio tape. Its World Premiere was at the Vienna estival, on May 12, 2002. Following this, the BBC commissioned a version for television to be broadcasted in September 2002. The Teatro alla Scala in Milan. ... Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer. ... The Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) is a cultural festival in Vienna that takes place every year for five weeks in May and June. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for September, 2002. ...

The breakdown of the composition

The musical composition of Three Tales follows follows the melody of the pre-recorded speech and bears resemblance to many that of another collaboration with Korot; The Cave (1990-1993), City Life (1995) and Different Trains (1988). The libretto of Three Tales can be found on the website of the composer (see bottom of page). This article needs to be wikified. ... This article is about the year. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... City Life is a minimalist composition by Steve Reich written in 1995. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Different Trains is a famous three-movement piece for string quartet and tape written by Steve Reich in 1988. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A libretto is the complete body of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. ...

The piece consists of three acts, each divided into different subsections:

Act I – Hindenburg

Nibelung Zeppelin

A Very Impressive Thing to See

I Couldn't Understand It

Act II – Bikini

In the Air I

The Atoll I

On the Ships I

In the Air II

The Atoll II

On the Ships II

In the Air III

The Atoll III

On the Ships III

Coda

Act III – Dolly

Cloning

Dolly

Human Body Machine

Darwin

Interlude

Robots/Cyborgs/Immortality

Three Tales is a summarization of nearly a hundred years of modern technology, concerning the Hindenburg disaster, the nuclear testings on Bikini Atoll and concluding with the cloning of Dolly the sheep and genetic engineering in general. The different stories are told from different perspectives including eye-witnesses and audiovisual documentary material of both the Hindenburg and Bikini affairs, but also experts in computer science (e.g. Marvin Minsky), artificial intelligence (Rodney Brooks) and genetic engineering (Richard Dawkins). LZ 129 Hindenburg was a German zeppelin that was destroyed by fire while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey on May 6, 1937. ... The Flag of Bikini Atoll Bikini Atoll (also known as Pikinni Atoll) is an uninhabited 6. ... Cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of an original organism or thing. ... Dolly and her first-born lamb, Bonnie Dolly (July 5, 1996 – February 14, 2003), a ewe, was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell. ... An iconic image of genetic engineering; this autoluminograph from 1986 of a glowing transgenic tobacco plant bearing the luciferase gene of the firefly, illustrating the possibilities of genetic engineering. ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927), sometimes affectionately known as Old Man Minsky, is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of MITs AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy. ... Hondas humanoid robot AI redirects here. ... Rodney Allen Brooks (b. ... An iconic image of genetic engineering; this autoluminograph from 1986 of a glowing transgenic tobacco plant bearing the luciferase gene of the firefly, illustrating the possibilities of genetic engineering. ... Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. ...

See also

• Drumming for 4 pairs of tuned bongo drums, 3 marimbas, 3 glockenspiels, 2 female voices, whistling and piccolo (1970/1971)

• Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ (1973)

• Music for 18 Musicians (1974-76)

• Music for a Large Ensemble (1978)

• Octet (1979) - arranged for ensemble as Eight Lines (1983)

• Tehillim for voices and ensemble (1981)

• The Desert Music for chorus and orchestra or voices and ensemble (1984, text by William Carlos Williams)

• Proverb for voices and ensemble (1995, text by Ludwig Wittgenstein)

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See also

• Steve Reich

Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer. ...

References

• Steve Reich Ensemble. Three Tales. Rec. June 2002. Judith Sherman, 2003 (audio).

• Three Tales. Dir. Nick Mangano. Perf. Steve Reich Ensemble, Synergy Vocals. Videocassette. Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2002 (visual).

External links

• SteveReich.com - Three Tales - opera libretto

• Amazon.com: Three Tales

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