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Earle Brown: Synergy

Read "Synergy" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

Never quite as celebrated as his New York contemporaries Morton Feldman and John Cage, Earle Brown was, nevertheless, a composer of exceeding brilliance. His music bespoke of breathtaking vistas, informed by his undying love of the New England of his birth as much as it was by his exceptional grasp of the immense fluidity of compositional form. A relative concrete expressionist, he is artistically descended from Edgard Varèse in that his work emphasized timbre and rhythm. In fact, the term, ...

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Earle Brown: Folio and Four Systems

Read "Folio and Four Systems" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Nella produzione di Earle Brown “Folio” e “Four Systems” (1954) rappresentano una sorta di condicio sine qua non per la comprensione della sua intera produzione, poiché, insieme ad altre coeve composizioni, contengono gli embrioni di alcuni percorsi di ricerca sviluppati nei successivi cinquant’anni dal compositore americano. È dunque assolutamente gradito il CD dato alle stampe dalla Tzadik che propone le due opere e quanto in aggiunta è stato composto (e scritto) da Brown in quel periodo, affidandolo all’interpretazione di musicisti ...

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