Each movement takes as its point of departure a quotation: from Milton Babbitt's lecture "The unlikely survival of serious music"; from the chapter "Vers une musique informelle" from Theodor Adorno's Quasi una fantasia : essays on modern music; from Evelyn Baring, Lord Cromer's Modern Egypt; and from Edward Said's Orientalism. Program, performance, and biographical notes in English. Commissioned by the Second Instrumental Unit for David Fulmer and Eliot Gattegno. Duration: approximately 12 minutes.
Contents:
I. Catchword : a modernist's 'dilemma' -- II. Intervention : une musique informelle -- III. Catchword : an oriental(ist) model -- IV. Intervention : a dialectical synthesis.
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