a frickin peiano key bangfest, one note, maybe two...wtf???
way to complex for me.
glass, he has his moments I think...he looks like an old Star Trek villian to me...
Dan, I bet you prolly had to sit all behaved like in a cushioned seat and be all faux arty audience man?..yes...did you have coffee afterwards and talk of revolution?
wah wah, you're giving me a wah wah ... wah wah...
I liked the Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack... and there was that one song... Rhythm in the Pews? Something like that. I dug it when I was a kid. Never heard of Terry Riley.
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Dan, I bet you prolly had to sit all behaved like in a cushioned seat and be all faux arty audience man?..yes...did you have coffee afterwards and talk of revolution?
I think ol' Phil might have enjoyed having at least one person stand up, scream "this is shit", and walk out.
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A lot of Phil's stuff is quite good, but a lot of it is quite awful, as well. It just so happened that the show was something of a tribute, and was thus focused on the REVOLUTIONARY works that the two made in the '60s (IE the most foreign to the formal tradition and the most tedious and "challenging" [what a great word ]).
The works were presented by the "Bang on a Can" ensemble [joined by Glass and Riley for two of the three pieces], which played extremely loudly and had onstage sound processing.
Phil played "Music in Fifths," and "Music in Similar Motion" - the type of pieces that people bring up when speaking derisively about Philip Glass (two pieces each based around a constantly repeating two measure long melodic fragment - delibrately written to go against conventions of counterpoint and voice-leading). I felt sorry for the 10 year old kid sitting two seats away from me.
Riley played "In C," whose structure I'm too tired to talk about.
All in all, there were some really great moments, and some really horrible moments.
Highlight of the Philip Glass portion was when the bass part came in on Music in Similar Motion (because it was being played by an upright - processed live with a nice FUZZ).
This was soon obscured by the fact that the piece went on for another twenty minutes
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