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The Reich Effect festival (Cork)

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    #2
    Sinfonia
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    I'm away at the moment, but I'm raging to be missing this. Especially with the man himself there!


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    FTGFOP
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    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.


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


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    #5
    FTGFOP
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    He writes music that some people like. Listen or don't. There's no con.


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    Norrdeth
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    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.


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    rcaz
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    Did anyone make it to the Jonny Greenwood performance?


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    The Mad Hatter
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    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.


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


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    funky penguin
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    Nolanger wrote: »
    One of the biggest con artists in 20th century classical music.

    :eek:


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    The Mad Hatter
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    funky penguin wrote: »
    :eek:

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


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    Nolanger
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    Or Philip Glass.


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    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭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?


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    Norrdeth
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    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.


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    #15
    funky penguin
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    Stockhausen for me. ****er has a lot to answer for.


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    Norrdeth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 912 ✭✭✭Norrdeth


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

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


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    #17
    funky penguin
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    You say that like it's a good thing. :pac:


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    #18
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭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."


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