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Description: Genre: World Music - Cuban & Latin / Artist: Maya Beiser / Import / Audio CD released 2003-10-21 at Koch International ... more Newest Review: ... consider two of the pieces are composed by Arvo Part and John Taverner (considered part of the spiritual minimalist school), ... more |
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by no_name - written on 16.03.07 (Very useful, 74 readings)
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I stumbled across Maya Beiser quite my accident. A day out at the Barbican to enjoy music free and ticketed in honour of composer Steve Reich's seventieth birthday. As we entered the building, good and early, a rather attractive woman with a cello and detachable sleeves was soundchecking and I think recording parts for her later multitracked performance in the foyer. Just those twenty minutes as she prepared were magnificent… normally I'm not one for solo cello - at least, it wouldn't really occur to me to listen. The day began with Balinese Gamelan; a group loose attached to the London Symphony Orchestra entertained greatly, all the more so for Gamelan being an unknown ...



