I do not understand at all how a program with 10 minutes of Xenakis and 70 minutes of Brahms can be of any interest in a contemporary music festival, simply for reasons of so called constructive parameters or the idea that a collision of both worlds could simply provoke some personal fascination. A great archtectural space of e.g. Corbusier (Xenakis) packed and filled up with massive 19 century furniture, dusty carpets and old paintings, whatever beauty they might have, explains the uneasy feeling I get seeing this program. A complex polyphonic mass of Ockeghem would have been a least better combination if you want. A Brahms-Xenakis-Brahms menu is something you would also never like to experience on your plate in a top quality restaurant. It is clear there has not been carefull thinking about the underlying esthetical concepts, affects and percepts both composers represent. Anything goes one would think. The next move could be the Mozart Requiem with a small 8 minute piece of Ligeti. Let's be honest if building bridges between diverse esthetical musical worlds is the aim, they can do much much better!
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I do not understand at all how a program with 10 minutes of Xenakis and 70 minutes of Brahms can be of any interest in a contemporary music festival, simply for reasons of so called constructive parameters or the idea that a collision of both worlds could simply provoke some personal fascination. A great archtectural space of e.g. Corbusier (Xenakis) packed and filled up with massive 19 century furniture, dusty carpets and old paintings, whatever beauty they might have, explains the uneasy feeling I get seeing this program. A complex polyphonic mass of Ockeghem would have been a least better combination if you want. A Brahms-Xenakis-Brahms menu is something you would also never like to experience on your plate in a top quality restaurant. It is clear there has not been carefull thinking about the underlying esthetical concepts, affects and percepts both composers represent. Anything goes one would think. The next move could be the Mozart Requiem with a small 8 minute piece of Ligeti. Let's be honest if building bridges between diverse esthetical musical worlds is the aim, they can do much much better!
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