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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

LAURIE ANDERSON

Variety Playhouse, Atlanta,
Jan. 24, 1997

Life On A String

Don't let the deadpan voice, arch phrasing and avant-garde haircut fool you. Despite her forbidding performance-art reputation, Laurie Anderson is a singer-songwriter of crushing poignance - a minimalist painter of melancholy moods who addresses universal themes in the vernacular of the commonplace....

2001 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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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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