I remember Reich & ensemble coming over to London in the early 80s,
performing Drumming in the first half (great if you like that kind of thing,
which I do), but in the second half a new work, Tehillim. This was really
exciting, because it suggested a way out from minimal to process -- there
was a sense of organization stretching beyond the immediate moment (the
minimalist paradigm captured by Michael Nyman's lovely title 'Act Fast Think
Slow').
Actually, both Reich and Glass have done interesting things with
voice-as-instrument as opposed to the traditional solo diva/massed choir
usage. Glass's Music in 12 Parts (I'm jealous, Hal) is a good e.g., as is
Reich's Music for 19 Musicians.
P
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> And pace my own comments, I really like The Desert Music too.
> But that does mean liking that kind of minimalism, which on
> the whole I do...
>
> Doug
>
>
> On 20-May-05, at 5:45 PM, Peter Cudmore wrote:
>
> > 20th c choral music is almost an oxymoron, but the
> Glagolitic Mass is
> > a glorious exception. There's also the fabulous Ligeti
> music Kubrick
> > used for 2001, and also a central-eastern European tradition that
> > Penderecki captures in his St Luke Mass.
> >
> > Pace Mark's comments about minimalism, there's also Steve Reich's
> > Desert Music, which I think is wonderful. Based on W. C. Williams
> > poems.
> >
> > Oh, and let's not forget Carmina Burana.
> >
> > P
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> Words cling to other words
> As we have seen, although even these are Migratory and the
> forgotten shows through as correction.
> This noun has been defunct for centuries.
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