Another Case of the Runs: Amoeba Beckons

Ligeti's Grand Macabre goes up at the Opera tomorrow night; I'll go later in the run. In preparation I read Richard Felciano's program notes today, and was overwhelmed with the realization that basically I know jack about Gyorgi, beyond a superficial acquaintance with some of the best-known choral and orchestral pieces.  So naturally, off I went to Amoeba...

Somehow I always end up getting more than I mean to.  Funny how that is.  Today's draw includes two Ligeti discs, one with 75 minutes of a cappella choral music (overload, perhaps; we shall see), and the other with "mechanical" music, featuring the famous Poeme Symphonique for 100 Metronomes. (I put this disc on right away, so that I could listen to it before OMC got home.)  Plus there was a used copy of the new Chanticleer album with Yvette Flunder in the new arrivals bin; how could I pass that up?  And though I have had some definite reactions in the past to Burmese music (which I will explore at a later date), I put my faith in the gentle and tasteful folks at Cantaloupe and picked up a used copy of Bang on a Can meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing.  When I got to the other side of the store, I spotted used copies of The Twelve Tribes by David Krakauer (an outrageously good klezmer clarinetist) and Hugh Masekela's grrr from 1965, two fun and unexpected finds!

Then I got hungry and had to leave.

Comments

[Albert]

From what I hear (folks who saw the dress rehearsal of Macabre), the whole production is sensory overload... I can't wait!

[omc]

i think omc would be more inclined to listen to metronomes than 75 minutes of choral music

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