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The mood at the concert was growing ugly. The audience had divided into two warring camps. Some listeners yelled for the music to stop, others called for it to continue. Umbrellas were brandished menacingly. Cheers and catcalls grew so noisy that the musicians had to count aloud to keep their...
With its short, catchy melodic fragments, simple chordal harmonies, rock-steady rhythms and virtually trance-inducing repetitions, the minimalist music of such composers as Reich, 45, Philip Glass, 45, and John Adams, 35, is directly emotional in its appeal, a deliberate rebuke to three decades of arid, overly intellectualized music...
The ideas that directly formed modern minimalism began circulating nearly a quarter-century ago. The first piece to achieve widespread recognition-or notoriety-was Terry Riley's In C (1964). Early minimalism in its purest form, In C consists of 53 short musical motives that can be played by...
Wagner's Festspielhaus is, as usual, in transition. During its early years, it was the physical realization of Wagner's artistic vision: a theater built to his own specifications where his revolutionary music dramas could be given their fullest expression. After Wagner's death in 1883, his...
What is more, it must gingerly be said, sung live, their politics almost seem to make sense. Not that you necessarily agree with them, but at least you learn to respect them. For while they will surely be spouting Marxist slogans until the day they die. Gill and King don...