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Tag: Joan La Barbara

  • This Weekend at the Issue Project Room

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    Frederic Rzewski via last.fm From New York’s ISSUE Project Room: 06/05 @ 8pm – Matthew Welch and Daniel Wohl: Composer Portraits by Transit Ulrikke for cello and percussion (2008)—Matthew Welch Big Hands (2009)—Daniel Wohl The Secret Labyrinth of Ts’ui Pen (2008)—Matthew Welch Suite Primaire (2008)–Daniel Wohl Symphony of Drones #2 (2002)–Matthew Welch Plus ou Moins…

  • Communicating Ideas Without a Word

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    The New York Times reviews a performance hosted by the Electronic Music Foundation. Composers and poets, and of course, singers, have long rhapsodized about the purity and naturalness of the human voice, and about how instruments are really just mechanical imitations on which performers aspire to produce a lyrical line and a singing tone. Strictly…