Loving these videos of Xenakis’s percussion masterpiece Pleiades by the Yale Percussion group. (Thanks to Jim Casella, whose Twitter feed pointed me towards finding these.)
Xenakis – Pleïades: Melanges; Claviers parts 1 and 2; Metaux parts 1 and 2; Peaux parts 1 and 2.
The fabulous Libra Duo played at the Warehouse the other week: my review of the concert is at Musical Pointers.
One thing I failed to mention in the review was Kagel’s Aforismos de Apollinaire, given as an encore; apologies for the oversight.
Posted at A Closet of Curiosities.
Komponist Mauricio Kagel gestorben
Another survivor falls. Almost no one left now.
Obituaries – press
Gramophone (Philip Clark)
Guardian (Adrian Jack)
Independent (Martin Anderson)
New York Times (William Grimes)
Nextbook (Chris Dumas)
Washington Post (Anne Midgette)
Obituaries – blogs
Greenleaf Music has a video of Acustica, played by Apartment House in 2005. More Kagel videos at my YouTube collection and Ubuweb.
