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Meitar Ensemble at Roulette Reviewed

From NYTimes.com:

The MATA Festival, which focuses on emerging composers, prides itself on presenting a diversity of styles. And members of the Israeli new-music Meitar Ensemble, founded in 2004 by the pianist Amit Dolberg and conducted by Guy Feder, played with a poise and precision that sought and found the unique character of each of the five works on Thursday’s program.

But those works all trod similar ground, intriguing if not exactly surprising: investigating the interaction of acoustic instruments and electronic sounds generated from them in real time. Each piece had interest, but their juxtapositions of hazy electronic backdrops and piquant, jittery lines began to blend into one another.


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