Mode 214/215: The Minimalists | Kyle Gann: Sunken City - Before
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Orkest de Volharding, Jussi Jaatinan cond.
In the spring of 1972, composer Louis Andriessen and saxophonist Willem Breuker brought together musicians from improvised and from traditional music, at a historical and tumultuous concert in the Amsterdam Carré theatre. They became the Orkest de Volharding ("obstinacy", an ensemble of flute, 3 saxophones, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, horn, piano and bass) which has distinguished itself internationally in the field of new music, with over 300 works written for them.
Kyle Gann felt that the most successful musical model for brass, reeds, and piano was 1920s New Orleans jazz. The first movement of Sunken City is pure fun New Orleans Mardi Gras, a stylized portrait of the energy and harmonic language of the music of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Bix Beiderbecke. The much longer second movement is a kind of interrupted chaconne. Successive variations suggest stages related to the Hurricane Katrina tragedy - grief, outrage, nostalgia, and acceptance.
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