Word: quintets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mark Janifer Quintet--Holmes Living Room...
Veteran Avant-Gardist Brant, 65, has long believed space is as important an element in composition as pitch or time values. In such works as Prevailing Winds (1974), for woodwind quintet, or the orchestral piece Antiphony One (1963), which requires five conductors, he deployed musicians all over the boxes, balconies and aisles of the hall instead of clustering them solely onstage. Greater complexity and expressiveness are his aim. "It's easier on the nervous system to have the music spaced," he says, "because you don't get it in a compact blast-you get it fragmented from different...