[NewMusic] Article Two

[Michael Henry]

I'll refrain from commenting upon the 3800 (mostly worthless) words re: Feldman, and instead point list readers to this even more recent Gannicism:


http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/

"Thus Notta Sonata contains (to quote what I once wrote about it)

...passages [that] sound like Baroque counterpoint on mallet instruments, tonalized fragments of Boulezian serialism, piano horn calls from a Weber opera reworked by Stockhausen with raucously ringing glockenspiels."

Similarly,  Gann's musings always seem to have "passages [that] sound like the flatulent spattering contrapuntal eruptions from an anal membrane, equal-tempered fragments of a post-Partchian patchouli, fortissimo kazoo calls from an opera by Jake Heggie reworked by Mike Huckabee with obnoxiously odious carillon bells."

Gannicide.

-MH
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Also, this essay on Feldman by Kyle Gann (everyone's favorite!) has
been making the rounds:

http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2008/01/in_dispraise_of_efficiency_fel.html

Matthew Goodheart
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