Hi Barry,
Thanks for this link. I will go and go there this weekend.
We don't have much chance to hear bands like Kronos but I did hear them
a couple of years ago in Sydney at the Opera House - they seemed to be
in a bit of a Mexican and Indian Bollywood phase at that stage. David
Harrington also did a most interesting talk on his music collection at
another venue. Sigur Ros I've only heard on CD.
Best.
Jill
On Friday, April 7, 2006, at 06:25 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> Thanks, Doug. Right now I'm listening to Kronos' 8:29 minute live
> recording of "The Fly Freer" which I just accessed via their website
> [www.kronosquartet.org]
> by clicking on "Unreleased tracks on MySpace". Sigur Ros' original can
> also be heard on the web. Though Kronos Quartet performed pieces by
> six
> different composers during the concert I attended, including works by
> Terry
> Riley, John Zorn, and Scott Johnson which I expected to yield writing
> on
> the basis of previous experience with their music, my rough draft
> written
> during "Flugufrelsarinn" seemed the most promising. Glad to hear that
> it
> worked for you. I chose the concert over a reading by Rosmarie & Keith
> Waldrop scheduled at the same time because I had witnessed a
> collaborative
> literary performance by them a few years ago which would be hard to top
> (though can't remember a "third individual" emerging), while I had
> never
> heard any of the musical compositions Kronos was scheduled to perform.
> Barry
>
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