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Joseph C. Phillips Jr.’s Vipassana (translated as “insights”, from early Buddhist texts) straddles the line between minimalism and jazz in similar manner to Steve Reich’s and John Adams’ works from…
…interaction that enhances the texts and gives the music a sense of life and motion. Highlights include an anonymous “Adieu vous di” and the incomparable ballade by Machaut, “Une vipere…
…her voice and phrasing in the hopeless passage before the concluding Meditation is shattering. At the close, as the queen dying from the viper’s bite, Gens reduces her voice to…
…unless you’re a musical diabetic this particular helping of what Gerard Hoffnung called “flagellated, no vipped” cream should satisfy your sweet tooth very nicely. The excerpts from Sun and Earth…
…following the opera’s last note, we see a projected 1820-2020 timeline. Three male VIPs in top hats remain on stage. In a split second they stomp on and crush a…
…Waller’s Viper’s Drag, yet her rhythmically inaccurate rendering of the main stride piano section swings not at all. Piazzolla’s ubiquitous Libertango also suffers from rhythmic arrhythmia, while the pianist’s stiff…