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Originally Posted by bas  What made this music seem so interminably self-indulgent were not the flights of imagination or the chance meetings of harmony and contrapuntal line, but, instead, the depressing freedom of it all. How inspiring can be the insight of the moment, the leap into something new, but such conscious capitulation to chaos as this appeared ultimately an act of laziness, not creation.
By BERNARD HOLLAND
New York Times
Published: March 18, 1987
Wilmer,
Just curious....did you find this to be the case with the piece? |
That's not a review of the BPO performance. The Brooklyn Philharmonic performance was in 1984, not 1987.
Ornette was re-working the piece up to the performance. He had Marvin"Smitty"Smith play twice as fast as the conducted pulse. They opted for amplification of the strings because of the power of the percussion.
I found it an interesting work.
Wilmer