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Kronos Quartet, Floodplain -

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Steve Reich - Three Movements / The Desert Music (conductor: Kristjan Järvi) -

So much of Steve Reich’s music depends on shifting tensions and sonorities. The slightest harmonic tweak in the upper strings must be as committed as the most grounding and predictable left-handed piano thuds. Consequently, performing his works requires an almost telepathic connection between musicians and expert marshalling, perhaps even more...

Philip Glass Drops Glass Box, Shards Injure Several Nearby College Professors - Alright, dudes-in-bands, listen up. Fucking schools in session, and our instructor is Philip Glass. Yes, after more than four decades of making us all exclaim Why didnt I think of that!?!? as we listened in awe to things like singers counting beats and singing sol feg syllables, arpeggios...

Chamber Works - A particularly evocative description exists of the 1941 premiere of Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fin du temps. The performance took place far away from the comfortable happiness of a concert hall; a hut in Stalag VIII-A, the German Prisoner-of-war camp in which Messiaen was interned and where he had written...

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