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The night started off with Stephen Lochbaum and Alexander Dunn playing a piece called "Nagoya Guitars" by Steve Reich. It was rad. This is my second time hearing the piece. I think it has something to do with one of the guitars slowly going out of phase.... |
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Second piece was called "Critical Band" by James Tenney. It was a messed up piece. Christopher Butterfield conducted this piece. It was pretty much musicians all over the recital hall, and at first they play all in tune. After a while, they'll start detuning a certain amount of cents. Sooner or later, the whole hall is filled with beats. It was pretty sweet. |
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Third piece - "Moonrise with Memories" by Frederic Rzewski. Christopher Butterfield conducted this one as well. I think this is just a weird combination of instruments - bass trombone, flute, clarinet, harpsichord, accordion, guitar, and marimba... What the crap? |
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Fourth piece - "The Sweet Queen" by Rudolf Komorous. There was actually a bass harmonica! But not enough of it which was too bad.. That thing was a beast. Interesting piece I think. |
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Next piece - "Phrygian Gates" by John Adams. This was played by Jessica Deltcher. Just played in the phrygian mode. Beautiful, beautiful piece. Definitely takes a lot of skill to play it. |
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Last piece - "Lux Aeterna" by Gyorgy Ligeti. Unaccompanied voices singing dissonance and a wide range. Sounds like a hard piece to get down... It was interesting.. Overall, yet another good and interesting concert. |
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