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Rewriting Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony (2006) 22'
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Beethoven-Fest Bonn
Thursday, July 21, 2016
David Lang
‘cheating, lying, stealing’ performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars at Mass MoCA
North Adams, MA
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Michael Gordon
‘for Madeline’ performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars at Mass MoCA
North Adams, MA
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Julia Wolfe
Believing performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars at Mass MoCA
North Adams, MA
NYRB Review: ‘the loser’
Francine Prose9/13/2016 The Loser, David Lang’s beautiful and startlingly original opera, had its world premiere this month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Composed for a solo baritone, a chamber ensemble, and a concert pianist, the opera (Lang not only wrote the music but is also responsible for the libretto and the stage direction) has been adapted from the Thomas Bernhard novel of the same name—a book which, since its publication in 1983, has attracted an almost cultish following…
continue readingRewriting Beethoven’s 7th Symphony UK Premiere
On May 7, London’s Barbican Centre presents the BBC Symphony in the UK premiere of Michael Gordon’s Rewriting Beethoven’s 7th Symphony. Commissioned by the Beethoven-Bonn Festival and premiered by the Bamberger Symphoniker in 2006, Gordon’s remarkable re-imagining filters one of the classics of the classics through the lens of the 21st-century. Not looking to improve on the work’s timeless quality, but to imagine ‘what if someone unknowingly used this material in the course of writing his or her new work?’
Gordon writes:
Read more…Beethoven’s brutish and loud music has always inspired me…
continue readingUS Premiere @ Spoleto: Rewriting Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony
On June 3, John Kennedy and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra present the US Premiere of Michael Gordon’s monumental Rewriting Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.
Commissioned by the Beethoven-Bonn Festival and premiered by the Bamberger Symphoniker in 2006, Rewriting Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony filters one of the classics of the symphonic repertoire through the lens of the 21st-century. Not looking to improve on the work’s timeless quality, Gordon imagined “what if someone unknowingly used this material in the course of writing his or her new work?”
Gordon writes:
Beethoven’s brutish and loud music has always inspired me…
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