Cryptic Messages or Silence From the 60s Avant-Garde

And/Or at the Kitchen

Either/Or, a new and first-rate new-music ensemble, returned to the self-absorbed world of the 1960s avant-garde on Friday night. Six musicians at the spiffy upstairs art gallery of the Kitchen played music by Robert Ashley, Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, Christian Wolff and Earle Brown.

An encouragingly large crowd of mostly young people heard music that alternately engaged them and tried their patience. These were not pieces to win the hearts of general listeners, resembling an earlier version of text messaging, leaving the impression of composers exchanging private communications among themselves.

Read full article (New York Times, September 17, 2007)

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Published:
17.09.07 / 11am
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Composition, Event, Experimental, Music