Betsy Jolas
... was featured at the 1996 Huddersfield Festival (the last year in which Stockhausen attended), I attended a concert of her works given by students from the University of York. Sadly, I then found her Music rather under-powered and I can remember little of it. (There's a new CD of her work reviewed by Arnold Whittall in the current Tempo, which suggests that it might reward further investigation, and there are other discs already available.)
That year I was rather overwhelmed by the Stockhausen events (as I'd expected to be) and by my first encounter with the ELISION ensemble, playing, amongst other things, a set of pieces called Negatives. I forget the composer, but I remember being glad that I'd dared the blizzards on the Pennines (the snow falling so thick that there was only a four-inch square clear on my windscreen by the time I reached Denholme).
Sorry - gone off-topic. Time to get back to Martinet.
... was featured at the 1996 Huddersfield Festival (the last year in which Stockhausen attended), I attended a concert of her works given by students from the University of York. Sadly, I then found her Music rather under-powered and I can remember little of it. (There's a new CD of her work reviewed by Arnold Whittall in the current Tempo, which suggests that it might reward further investigation, and there are other discs already available.)
That year I was rather overwhelmed by the Stockhausen events (as I'd expected to be) and by my first encounter with the ELISION ensemble, playing, amongst other things, a set of pieces called Negatives. I forget the composer, but I remember being glad that I'd dared the blizzards on the Pennines (the snow falling so thick that there was only a four-inch square clear on my windscreen by the time I reached Denholme).
Sorry - gone off-topic. Time to get back to Martinet.
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