Free In C mp3.Okay now click here and download that mother already. When's the last time you got 42 golldamn minutes of Terry Riley for free?
Friday, April 3, 2009
WHAT ARE YOU DOING, YOU SHOULD BE DOWNLOADING IT RIGHT NOW
I know it's silly to even pretend that anybody who's reading this blog today didn't already read Alex Ross's blog today but just in case, here is a three-line poem:
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The Bodies Keep the Score
Another summer festival review for Parterre ! This time, Matthew Aucoin's Music for New Bodies, at Lincoln Center.
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Opera is an anachronism. It was an anachronism from the moment it was invented—wasn't it?—the last gasp of the neoclassical tendencies ... -
First! Everybody buy the new Kronos Quartet CD, which has liner notes by one of my favorite Gregs. The Nonesuch.com store has it on sale, ...
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Free is awesome. I only wish the performance was stronger. "In C" can be so killing when everyone who plays it has a deep rhythmic pocket, but that is sadly not really the case here.
I agree, with reservations. I prefer the Bang on a Can recording to Riley's own, which is why I never bought this disc—but I also think that this shaggy-ass '68 hippie be-in (C-in?) is something of a must-hear, partly as a document of the composer's intentions. It has, hm, "a certain charm."
It has, hm, "a certain charm."
Yeah, I hear that, especially w/r/t the composer's own playing on this. It definitely captures the spirit of the times in a really vivid way. That said, it's not possible for me to listen to this without thinking, "C'mon dudes -- less Grateful Dead, more Sly and the Family Stone."
Waah! US only! Grrrr*&%$*%^ Amazon *sob*
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