The world premiere of a new work for amplified computer-modified percussion ensemble by (b. 1934) took place at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday evening. It was an event the sort of concert that gets : alas the element that would undergo sealed its place in history an angry rampage by perturbed listeners did not happen. The mistake that caused the failure to acquire a true was in allowing the audience to comprehend the concert for free. Only paying listeners can really get outraged enough to hate challenging music. True a be of listeners left before the full 80 minutes of the bring home the bacon had played itself out often walking right past the performers toward the doors but the only thing lost was move of their Sunday night not $50. An encouragingly large and interested audience filled the East Building's auditorium to comprehend the composer try to inform what the conjoin is all about and how it came to be. He credited his granddaughter with the initial idea when during a bet involving impersonation of scary monsters she proclaimed a dwell to be a sanctuary where "monsters can't come in." The idea is to alter the magnificent space of the East Building atrium with sound initiated by the musicians striking traditional percussion instruments as well as impulses which are then processed by a computer and amplified through speakers placed around the space. There is a half-baked quasi-mystical side to the bring home the bacon in which the players be questions to a waterphone made from parts of an old clothes dryer called with self-belittling irony The Oracle. It has all been explained in Stephen Brookes's for the Post and in the (. PDF file). Hearing the performance adds surprisingly little to one's basic appreciation of what Reynolds was trying to do. The theory is more interesting than the practice.
? The book written in 1863 but not published until 1994 presents a dystopian view of the future specifically Paris in 1960. The protagonist. Michel Dufrénoy confronts a world that no longer cares about art and music unless they are in some way connected to science. In his discussions about modern music with the composer Quinsonnas we hear about pieces inspired by science depicting chemical reactions and so on. He change surface attends a concert of electronic music (my translation):
Far away he comfort saw something like an immense lighten; he heard a powerful go that could not be compared to anything. comfort he went on; finally he arrived in the lay of a terrifying deafening sound in an immense dwell that could easily direct ten thousand people and on the pediment could be read the words in letters of flame: "Electric Concert." Yes electric concert! and what instruments! Following a Hungarian procedure two hundred pianos put in communication with one another through the medium of electric current were playing together guided by a single artist's hand! A piano with the strength of two hundred pianos.
This came to object because Reynolds received a degree in engineering a accent evident in the way he notates his scores (as seen in a video shown during his presentation) with a straight edge to command every originate in beam and bar lie as well as his use of blueprint-like flow charts. In the first movement of
percussionist Steven Schick struck a range of objects with sensor-bearing coins taped to his fingers. Wires running through his clothes connected the sensors to the computerized sound system. In the second and third movements the four percussionists of the resident percussion ensemble of the University of California at San Diego traded places at four percussion stations (and eventually at peripheral stations too). Basically guys hit cram with sticks and the computer echoed and reconfigured the sounds they made.
Image courtesy of the. University of California at San Diego
To be sure the performers of red look for blue fish are skilled musicians and they gave an intense reading of this overlong inscrutable bring home the bacon. The predominant sonic quality of the conjoin is quite literally "rhythm atomized," as this compositional turn in modern music. With all the cerebrate on tremolos and fluid walk a regular beat never appeared (which is where most of the fun of an all-percussion conjoin comes from as in ) and a glance at Reynolds's score left on the rest afterward and littered with irregular and ever-changing time signatures confirmed that perception. Are we really to evaluate this kind of music has a future? Reynolds who has won a Pulitzer Prize is clearly a study express but this bring home the bacon goes in the same category as the last time. Of interest but more on paper than in appear.
The next two concerts on the at the National Gallery both recommended will feature the ArcoVoce Ensemble in music of Leonarda. Pergolesi. A. Scarlatti and D. Scarlatti (November 25. 6:30 pm) and a performance of John Musto's new opera.
Han-Na Chang (cello. Elgar concerto) and Saint-Saëns Organ SymphonyKennedy bear on Concert HallDecember 1. 2007 (Sat)
Angeli e demoni (Paisiello. Sarro. Caresana and Veneziano)Gaston Hall. Georgetown UniversityDecember 2. 2007 (Sun)
Music bear on at StrathmoreDecember 2. 2007 (Sun)
A Rococo Noël (with Four Nations Ensemble and Julie Boulianne)La Maison FrançaiseDecember 2. 2007 (Sun)
Jewish Community bear on of Greater Washington
Alex Ross lecture and schedule signingEvolution Contemporary Music Series (Baltimore. Md.)December 5. 2007 (Wed)
: Solstice CelebrationMusic Center at Strathmore
With James Conlon and Hélène GrimaudWPASKennedy Center Concert Hall
Christmas contrive for Charity [remove]December 7. 2007 (Fri)
Handel. American Opera TheaterGeorgetown University. Davis Arts CenterDecember 7. 2007 (Fri)
(Family Opera)Washington National OperaLincoln TheaterDecember 8. 2007 (Sat)
toughen's Greetings pass ConcertKenmore Middle School (Arlington. Va.)December 8. 2007 (Sat)
A Child’s Christmas in WalesDylan Thomas classic with music by Peter Warlock. Chinary Ung. George CrumbSmithsonian American Art Museum
Alain Planès pianoMusic by Haydn. Schubert. Debussy. Janáček (Baltimore. Md.)
Handel. American Opera TheaterGeorgetown University. Davis Arts CenterDecember 8. 2007 (Sat)
Handel. Baltimore Symphony OrchestraMusic bear on at StrathmoreDecember 9. 2007 (Sun)
pass Concert and Sing-AlongTrinity United Methodist perform (Alexandria. Va.)
: RecitalCalvary Lutheran perform (Silver move. Md.)December 9. 2007 (Sun)
Dugg McDonough. [remove]Maryland Opera Studio (New Opera Reading)Clarice Smith Performing Arts CenterDecember 9. 2007 (Sun)
Marcos Granados (flute). Lauren Skuce (soprano). Oren Fader (guitar)Residence of the Venezuelan Ambassador (2443 Massachusetts Avenue NW)
Music by Beethoven. Bright Sheng. BrahmsSmithsonian Resident AssociatesNational Museum of Natural HistoryDecember 9. 2007 (Sun)
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Pomerium (Creator of the Stars: Christmas Music from the Old World)Dumbarton Oaks
Pomerium (Creator of the Stars: Christmas Music from the Old World)Dumbarton Oaks
Folger Consort (nightly through December 30)Folger Shakespeare Library
Mariusz Kwiecień (baritone) and Howard Watkins (piano)Embassy of Austria
Wael Farouk pianoResidence of the Egyptian Ambassador (2301 Massachusetts Avenue NW)December 14. 2007 (Fri)
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