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The Bartok works which concluded the program provided perhaps the most satisfying listening of the evening, simply because one never hears Bartok performed so sympathetically. Dissonance, so much a matter of course in the composer's style, was treated as such, rather than as a means of jolting the listener...
Objections such as those discussed above are not to be solved by increased rehearsal of the ensemble or greater individual technical facility (which, I reiterate, was largely exemplary). It is a matter of conception. To cries of "purist" and "unimportant details" which may be provoked by the foregoing. I respond...
Lyrical obscurity is concluded in "Almost Independence Day," whose nearly ten and a half minutes manage to make not a shred of sense. But the song is not boring: on the contrary. Van brings it off nicely. The convoluted absurdity of the lyrics force the listener to shift his attention...
"Be My Lover" is similarly structured. It begins with a full organ opening leading to an excellent basic riff from the rhythm section. (Ballard's chording is exceptional here, as it is on his own songs, and throughout.) Argent's gradual entry into the song for the break emphasizes his...
In each of the pieces, "Meeting of the Spirits." "You Know You Know," and "Dreams," the structure is similar. The emphasis at all times is on spiralling speed, not speed as flash (that's best left to the Alvin Lees and Johnny Winters) but speed with taste, leading to a...