The question of form is key in the music of Earle Brown, one of the foremost American composers of the past 50 years. It was a certain amount of serendipity and shared interest in the liberation of musical form which brought Brown together, circa 1951, with John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff and David Tudor, in what was for a time called the New York School...There was a close identification between these composers and painters at this time, and Feldman and Brown, especially, took vital inspiration from the philosophies and techniques of artists like, respectively Rothko and Pollock. - Art Lange, 1995/2002 “The differing versions of "Event: Synergy II" performed here by the Ensemble Avantgarde reflect the looseness of systems determining pitch, metre etc, though the palette of woodwind and percussion ensures a certain similarity. Here and on "Windsor Jambs" and "Tracking Pierrot", the mood is restive, inquisitive, yet never wilfully antagonistic” The Independent, 11th March 2011 |
Building a Library
