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She can turn on a dime between conversational speech, pure-toned soprano singing, and Dadaistic noise.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 19, 2017
The irony, in a masterpiece like Ligeti’s opera “Le Grand Macabre,” is that these Dadaistic gestures now serve the purpose of highly sophisticated, entertaining and virtuosic art.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2016
The opera, with a Dadaistic libretto by Paul Griffiths, a former music critic for The New York Times, had its premiere in 1999 at the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden, with Daniel Barenboim conducting.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2012
In the film, this same feeling is now felt in all the lines lifted directly from the text and the many recreated scenes that create a prevailing yet playfully dadaistic doom.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
The New Classicism is the antithesis of the esthetically irrelevant psychological illustration of the popular Expressionist-Surrealists and should in no way be identified with their dadaistic denial of the universality of the esthetic.
From Time Magazine Archive
This information would please his dadaistic confrères, if no one else shows signs of interest.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
