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Dreamhouse, Boston, May 2007.
American premiere: Rinde Eckert, solo baritone/indescribable performance artist, with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. This is most welcome news: a concert CD of Dreamhouse was among my most treasured promotional recordings experienced through my former mode of employment.
As one might expect for a fifty-minute work involving an indescribable performance artist, chamber chorus, four electric guitar solists, and a large orchestra, Dreamhouse has been performed exactly once in its young life, by its commissioning festival in the Netherlands.
Easily one of the best rock-infused classical works of all time, though that's not saying much, it's ambitious, vivid, sometimes ungainly, and appealingly loopy. Nocturnal sections are hauntingly beautiful and the finale is unforgettably catchy.
BMOP also has a nice fat audio clip of Mackey's goofball cello concerto Banana/Dump Truck on their website: worth listening to, and a good example of Mackey's style.
While we're future-gazing, note that John Adams's Hindemith-style symphony on music from Doctor Atomic is scheduled to batter some hearts at Carnegie Hall at the end of March, courtesy David Robertson & the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Robertson, one of the best concert programmers around, has aptly matched it with Britten and the completed fragment of Mahler's Tenth.
American premiere: Rinde Eckert, solo baritone/indescribable performance artist, with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. This is most welcome news: a concert CD of Dreamhouse was among my most treasured promotional recordings experienced through my former mode of employment.
As one might expect for a fifty-minute work involving an indescribable performance artist, chamber chorus, four electric guitar solists, and a large orchestra, Dreamhouse has been performed exactly once in its young life, by its commissioning festival in the Netherlands.
Easily one of the best rock-infused classical works of all time, though that's not saying much, it's ambitious, vivid, sometimes ungainly, and appealingly loopy. Nocturnal sections are hauntingly beautiful and the finale is unforgettably catchy.
BMOP also has a nice fat audio clip of Mackey's goofball cello concerto Banana/Dump Truck on their website: worth listening to, and a good example of Mackey's style.
While we're future-gazing, note that John Adams's Hindemith-style symphony on music from Doctor Atomic is scheduled to batter some hearts at Carnegie Hall at the end of March, courtesy David Robertson & the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Robertson, one of the best concert programmers around, has aptly matched it with Britten and the completed fragment of Mahler's Tenth.
2 Comments:
Ah, but this will be unnecessary:
"Over the course of the season, BMOP will record 14 works for commercial release, including 3 complete CDs: Steven Mackey's Dreamhouse, Eric Sawyer's Our American Cousin, and a complete CD of Louis Andriessen music. All of BMOP's recordings are world premiere recordings."
Score.
No way dude. I will totally make a shoddy lo-fi recording of that piece - there's no way anything but a live recording of it will do.
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