St John’s Smith Square,London
A closing programme of compositions by Laurie Spiegel, Éliane Radigue and Edmund Finnis gave some focus to this festival’s slightly slippery concept Related: Mothers of invention: the women who pioneered electronic music A weekend of concerts sheltering under the umbrella title Deep Minimalism seemed to cry out for further definitions. But like the term “minimalism”, or the view of deep minimalism becomes more slippery and harder to pin down the more,er, deeply you think approximately. Even whether the programmes that the Southbank Centre organised at St John’s Smith Square did throw valuable light on a number of composers whose music doesn’t get the recognition it deserves, and they also included works by such composers as John Cage and Galina Ustvolskaya,who wouldn’t figure in most definitions of what minimalism is, whether deep or not. Related: Patricia Kopatchinskaja in compliment of minimalism – less is much, and much more Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com