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...extreme image consciousness (they dress wildly) and to programming that carefully dilutes the heavy cerebral stuff with forays into alternative worlds informed by rock, jazz, performacne art, and the folk music of various regions. Their concert Saturday, characteristically diverse in its content, comprised nine pieces, by Michael Daugherty. Osvaldo Golijov, George Antheil, Henry Cowell, Raymond Scott, Sofia Gubaidulina, Arvo Part, John Zorn and Scott Johnson...
Second on the program was Golijov's "Yiddishbbuck," a three movement elegy inspired, according to the program notes, by apocrybhal and Franz Kafka, but commemorating Isaac Bashevis Singer, Leonard Bernstein and concentration camp victims. Such program notes gave a fair indication of the kind of piece that ensued, which seemed all gesture and no substance. (Golijov was present and made obligatory obsequious composers stage appearance, almost refusing to bow in his attempt to give the performers all the credit.) Also disappointing was cobaidulina...
Following the Golijov was a pair of short pieces from the time of World War I by Antheil and Cowell. Each written when its composer was 19, Antheil's "Lithuanian Night" reflected the influence of Debussy, while Cowell's quite brief "Quartet Euphometric" gave one an impression of little more than its complexly generated rhythms, based on the then-embryonic theories that would mature into his famous treatise New Musical Resources. Kronos is to be commended for resurrecting the works of these, our little-heard but worthy musical forebears...
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