The Reich Effect festival (Cork)

FTGFOP

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Any excitement for this?

Going to Music for 18 musicians on Saturday, looking forward to it. I've never heard any Reich live before.

Sinfonia

I'm away at the moment, but I'm raging to be missing this. Especially with the man himself there!

FTGFOP

I'd like to take in the interview and the dance pieces in the Firkin Crane, but the concert is expensive enough on its own.

Nolanger

One of the biggest con artists in 20th century classical music.

FTGFOP

He writes music that some people like. Listen or don't. There's no con.

Norrdeth

Saw Kronos play WTC 9/11 there on Saturday in Derry, wasn't really impressed.
And his style hasn't really evolved much since Different Trains, and the pieces are really similar!

Still don't get his phase stuff either.

rcaz

Did anyone make it to the Jonny Greenwood performance?

The Mad Hatter

El Pr0n wrote: »

Did anyone make it to the Jonny Greenwood performance?

Sadly, I missed the whole thing, but Dervan gave the Greenwood piece a moderately positive note (and I mean note) in his review of the event:

The orchestral programme was, for me, something of a damp squib. Two pieces by Nico Muhly ( Step Team and So to Speak ) seemed to take an overly naive approach to creating oh-what-a-bad-boy-am-I effects. Kjartan Sveinsson’s Credo was awkwardly maudlin, though it provided an effective platform for The Voice Effect, a new choir created by John O’Brien. Jonny Greenwood’s Doghouse was altogether more effective, almost gorging in orchestral voluptuousness, but didn’t really know where to draw the line or when to stop. It all may have had something to do with Ziegler’s conducting, because even Reich’s Eight Lines didn’t quite gel under his direction.

Nolanger

Did they play 4 organs? That would have cleared the building

funky penguin

Nolanger wrote: »

One of the biggest con artists in 20th century classical music.

:eek:

The Mad Hatter

funky penguin wrote: »

:eek:

I know - you'd think that title would be reserved for Stravinsky.

Nolanger

Or Philip Glass.

The Mad Hatter

Nolanger wrote: »

Or Philip Glass.

I dunno, Glass' music is simple, but I don't think anyone would argue otherwise. What makes him (or Reich) a con artist in your opinion?

Norrdeth

I've nothing really against those lads TBH they've had their day.
What really gets me is those Bang on a Can guys,
like who do they think that they're fooling,
they have some OK pieces but overall most are quite boring.

funky penguin

Stockhausen for me. ****er has a lot to answer for.

Norrdeth

Haha! Now funky, we've been through this!

He was a bit mad, but he did contribute a lot to our understanding and acceptance of electro-acoustic music.

funky penguin

You say that like it's a good thing. :pac:

The Mad Hatter

Dang, I was hoping for my Stravinsky comment to stir up at least a little ire:(

I'm with Glenn Gould, who referred to him and Bartók as "the two most overrated composers of the twentieth century."