Event: JACK Quartet, Music Building, University of Illinois, Friday, May 4, 2007
Program:
Aaron Travers, ECLATS CYCLE
Helmut Lachenmann, STRING QUARTER NO. 3 "GRIDO"
Aaron Cassidy, STRING QUARTET
Iannis Xenakis, TETRAS
Program notes: Voluminous and ponderous
Critics: Lee, the midwestern Bjork, and her spouse PG, the Matthew Barney
REVIEW #1, by Lee
"It is like our house, the washing machine and the dryer, squeaky things, the basement. You know, sort of dysfunctional environment music."
REVIEW #2, by PG
"This concert by Chris and friends totally rocked. The only way it could have been better would be if they had performed a la Charlotte Moorman and, at the end, kicked over their music stands a la The Who."
(Extra notes not incorporated into the reviews: the question of intentionality in the performance; the look of the score; the quietness that allowed for audible intrusions in the audience of chairs squeaking, face scratching, and farts; the ability to differentiate between styles in the composers, we could do it but we did not know how.)
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