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Riviere Composers' Pool: Summer Works 2009

by Raul d'Gama Rose
November 17, 2010

Rivière Composers' PoolSummer Works 2009Emanem2010 Summer Works 2009 is, very possibly, one of the finest testaments to spontaneously composed contemporary music since saxophonist Steve Lacy fired his first broadsides in Europe almost four decades ago. The music flies in the face of logic--how can two,three or four disparate individuals be of one mind? Moreover, how can the musicians know where each idea emerges from, not know where it is going and ...