Wednesday, June 18, 2008Tuesday's Patterns and StructureI have seen many great performances at the DSO over the last 7 months or so, but last nights Day 4: Patterns and Structure with the FLUX Quartet and New Music Detroit was easily one of my favorites, if not my favorite.The night started off with a very intense performance of John Adams' Shaker Loops. I have never seen the performance performed before, so I guess I don't have anything to compare the performance to, but I loved it. I thought the FLUX Quartet did an amazing job and definitely blew me away. Their second piece was Steve Reich's Different Trains. Again, FLUX did an excellent job. I was really interested in this piece because of the context in which it was made. This was a good balance with Shaker Loops in the beginning too. The program ended with New Music Detroit performing Les Moutons de Panurge (which means The Sheep of Panurge) by Frederic Rzewski. Because all of us here at the DSO have been so busy these last few weeks getting ready for 8 Days, I almost skipped out of the last performance because I still had many things to do before I had to go to sleep last night. But I am glad I didn't. New Music Detroit killed it on this one. I especially liked the drums on it and loved that there was a jazz feel to it as well. All in all, it was one of the best programs I've seen here. I especially liked the John Adams piece. I think I'll look for that on vinyl. See you tonight at Being and Becoming. |
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