Opening: Masterly Minimal Music Schlagzeugkollektiv Tirol
Dir: Andreas Schiffer
REICH, BRYARS, GLASS
The opening concert of the 38th Tyrol Easter Festival is centred on US-American minimal music. Steve Reich’s 1986 Music for Six Marimbas is a classic. Six marimbas form a dense, pulsating web of sound, in which slight rhythmic and melodic shifts are gradually moulded into new structures. The music is both meditative and highly energetic – a fascinating interplay of precision, movement and time. In his percussion quintet One last bar then Joe can sing (1994), Gavin Bryars also exploits the diversity of percussion sound. He employs lyrical, chamber-music-like gestures, with restlessly repetitive figures, fragile harmonic shifts and gently floating lines to create a lively minimalist soundscape. Although percussion instruments play an important role in many of the works of Philip Glass, it was not until he was 81 that he composed his first and so far only work for percussion, Perpetulum. It combines an almost childlike exploration of sound with Glass’ characteristic musical style, and captivates the audience with sounds of the spheres.
Schlagzeugkollektiv Tirol: Matthias Legner, Chris Norz, Fabian Kluckner, Stefan Heiss, Benjamin Kowollik
Director: Andreas Schiffer
Programme:
Steve Reich Music for Six Marimbas
Gavin Bryars One last bar then Joe can sing
Philip Glass Perpetulum
