A TUBA ARMY USHERS IN THE BANG ON A CAN MARATHON AT THE WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER
door Bela Luttmer, 2006
En toen klonk plotseling die frisse muziek, dwars door het (...)
New York Times, june 6, 2006
(...) The familiar Minimalist repetitions and permutations still generate extraordinarily varied music. Michael Nyman's score for a silent film based on the Walt Whitman poem "Manhatta" bustled along with new kinetic motifs for every scene. David Lang's "World to Come," written and performed by the cellist Maya Baiser with recordings of her voice and additional cello parts, unfurled yearning, folk-song-like melodies amid the counterpoint. Amiina, from Iceland, played tinkling, sweetly consonant pieces - for vibraphone, desk bells, musical saw, water glasses and strings - that suggested Minimalism conceived in a dollhouse.
The Dutch composer Mayke Nas's "Belle Chocolatière," played by the Manhattan School of Music's ensemble Tactus, was a piquant, scurrying, almost Impressionist daydream. Anna Clyne's "Rapture" was darkly apocalyptic, with its solo clarinet (played by Eileen Mack) almost swallowed in foreboding electronics.
(...) Another pioneering form of Minimalism - La Monte Young's pure-intonation meditations - was represented by Michael Harrison, who has his own Pythagorean piano tuning that spreads an octave more widely across the keys. Playing the finale of his "Revelation: Music for the Harmonically Tuned Piano," Mr. Harrison's perpetual-motion six-note ostinatos could sound like an otherworldly jig, as phantom overtones and resonances seemed to hover around him. (...)
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door Kasper Jansen, 2006
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by John Parales, 2006
The Dutch composer Mayke Nas's "La Belle Chocolatière," played (...)
door René van Peer, 2006
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door Anthony Fiumara, 2005
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by Clarke Bustard, 2005
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by Guy Livingston, 2004
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by Helen Meany, 2004
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