"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony.
In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity." (Albert
Einstein)
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settling an extra-large score, plus a lecture in New England...
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FABER MUSIC *XL for 40 voices*
If you've ever wondered what a score with 40 separate voice-parts
looks like, or how Thomas Tallis's 'Spem in alium' might have
been realised in the 21st Century, now's your chance...
Scores of my own 40-part motet, punningly entitled 'XL' (ISBN
0-571-54040-6), are available via all good music shops or the
Faber
Music website:
http://www.fabermusic.com/serverside/publications/Details.asp?ID=0571540406
To buy: just £9.95 each;
contact: sales@fabermusic.com
or +44 (0)1279 828982.
To hire: sets of 41 copies at an extra-low rate of £40/month;
contact: +44 (0)1279 828907 or +44 (0)1279 828908.
TUESDAY 26 APRIL 4.30pm *A Mystical Offering*
"Acclaimed composer, producer, and director Antony Pitts
compares
the music of Bach and Pärt... ...as part of the Charles
P. Scott
Symposium, including the Hilliard Ensemble concert at 7.30pm."
J. S. Bach and Arvo Pärt represent opposing currents in
the ocean
of Western classical music: an ebb and flow of creative responses
to the perennial unanswered questions. With his imperial touch
Old Bach apotheosized all existing forms in timeless Elysian
gold, while those same traditional casts were shattered by the
Estonian revolutionary Pärt in order to reshape a musical
future
from the simplest elements of sound and silence. But these two
composers have one common dominant: an uncanny devotion to number
and order...
venue: Conference Room, Robert A. Jones House,
Hillcrest Road off College Street (Route 125),
Middlebury College,
Middlebury, Vermont, USA
http://web.middlebury.edu/offices/pubaff/news_releases/news_2005/hilliard.htm
admission: free
Next month: performances in London and a French CD...
Thank you for listening,
Antony Pitts
www.tonusperegrinus.co.uk
