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October 20, 1999

Laurie Anderson

The opening of Next Wave Festival
October 18, 1999

Performance: Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson explores the philosophical seas of Moby Dick
January 27, 1997

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Variety Playhouse, Atlanta,
Jan. 24, 1997

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Bright Red

Think you're having a rough decade? Consider Laurie Anderson's first recording of the '90s. Paradoxically, this performance artist's previous album (Strange Angels, 1989) was among her most whimsical, not to mention a huge conceptual breakthrough: Laurie sings! Bright Red finds her reverting to...

2008 RS: 4of 5 Stars

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Biography

Avant-garde performance artist Laurie Anderson had a British pop hit with her 1981 recording "O Superman" (b/w "Walk the Dog"). Like all her music, "O Superman" was just one aspect of a larger multimedia oeuvre - in this case a seven-hour work in four parts called United States, I-IV, which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music early in 1983. (A lavishly illustrated book about the show was...

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