Minimalism: favourite works

[BBMmk2]

John Adams: Hallelujah junction

[hmvman]

Reich: Drumming, Octet, Violin Phase, Different Trains
Glass: Music in Twelve Parts

[Bryn]

And, given that 2 × 9 = Eighteen (a number to which you rather delightfully referred upthread), what about No, No, Nonette - No, No, Nonette?

You refer, I take it, to Professor Schickele's edition of the P.D.Q. Bach work for assorted winds and toys; or is there a Nono Nonette of which I was not previously aware?

[Ferretfancy]

Is there any composer, alive or dead, who is more boring than Michael Nyman? Way back, watching the The Piano, trapped with friends in the cinema, I began to lose the will to live.

[ahinton]

is there a Nono Nonette of which I was not previously aware?

I knew someone would come up with that one and suspected that it might be you!

[Bryn]

Is there any composer, alive or dead, who is more boring than Michael Nyman? Way back, watching the The Piano, trapped with friends in the cinema, I began to lose the will to live.

There are plenty of them, but I am with you re. The Piano. Even John Tilbury's advocacy failed to win me over to it. Didn't reckon the film much otherwise, either. However, his Purcell based stuff for Greenaway, etc. has some merit, I feel. Of his music for large orchestra, only the aforementioned A Handsom, Smooth, Sweet, Smart, Clear Stroke: Or Else Play Not At All has held my attention, and that I have only ever heard in extract (as part of a Nyman portrait programme on Radio 3 in the early '80s). As far as I know, it has only ever received the one performance, in Vienna, which stirred up a near riot.

[Pianorak]

Would F. Rzewski's Piano Concerto qualify as "minimalism"? As for Nyman's "The Piano" I thought it was just right for the film, although out of context it doesn't do anything for me any longer.

[Bryn]

Would F. Rzewski's Piano Concerto qualify as "minimalism"? ...

Not to my ears, it doesn't.

[Beef Oven!]

[Serial_Apologist]

John Coltrane - "My Favorite Things" (1960)

[Pianorak]

Not to my ears, it doesn't.

Thanks, Bryn. I didn't think it qualified - but know nothing about minimalist music, but willing to learn.

[Don Petter]

Thanks, Bryn. I didn't think it qualified - but know nothing about minimalist music, but willing to learn.

Presumably there can't be too much to learn?

[Ferretfancy]

There are plenty of them, but I am with you re. The Piano. Even John Tilbury's advocacy failed to win me over to it. Didn't reckon the film much otherwise, either. However, his Purcell based stuff for Greenaway, etc. has some merit, I feel. Of his music for large orchestra, only the aforementioned A Handsom, Smooth, Sweet, Smart, Clear Stroke: Or Else Play Not At All has held my attention, and that I have only ever heard in extract (as part of a Nyman portrait programme on Radio 3 in the early '80s). As far as I know, it has only ever received the one performance, in Vienna, which stirred up a near riot.

Bryn

Maybe I've been a bit unkind, since I hated The Piano and would have gone home if I could - must try harder, as the carthorse said in Animal Farm

[Don Petter]

My only live exposure to a work by someone Wiki tells me is a minimalist composer was Laszlo Vidovszky's 'Schroeder's Death' for piano and two to three assistants. It took an awfully long time to get back to where it started (and to get the piano back to where it started, fully playable), and didn't make me want to explore the genre further.

[Madame Suggia]

Lou Harrison: Double concerto
Philip Glass: String Quartet no.5
Akhnaten
Einstein on the beach
North Star
Steve Reich: Music for a large ensemble
Music for 18 musicians
John Adams: The wound dresser
Naive And Sentimental Music