Tactus at Manhattan School of Music

From NYTimes.com:

It says something about the increasingly boundary-free state of the music world that no one batted an eye when Tactus, a new-music student ensemble at the Manhattan School of Music, opened its Tuesday evening concert at the school with “Cardiac Arrest,” a song about the perils of overdrive by the 1980s British rock band Madness.

Stranger still, the two older works that followed seemed, in context, almost like a dissection of Mr. Adès’s Madness arrangement. Webern’s Quartet (Op. 22, 1930) for clarinet, saxophone, violin and piano was pointillistic and spare, qualities that characterized the upper lines of “Cardiac Arrest.” And Giacinto Scelsi’s “Et Maintenant C’est à Vous de Jouer” (“And Now It’s Your Turn,” 1974), for cello and bass, had some of the harmonic haziness of the rock song’s underpinning.