Laurie Anderson premieres stunning multimedia work

Laurie Anderson -- musician, storyteller, venerable pixie of the New York downtown art scene -- has long been in love with language. She doesn't just tell stories; she draws out every word with a kind of physical pleasure, tasting its flavor as she probes the everyday mysteries of life. Those mysteries -- and the nature of language itself -- were at the heart of Anderson's "Landfall: Scenes from My New Novel," a riveting, gorgeous new multimedia work that she premiered this weekend at the Univer...