Colin McEnroe Show: Modern Music Invades Connecticut
Bang On A Can and other modernist music in Connecticut
Contemporary music. New Music. Modernist music. If you want to empty out a concert hall full of symphony subscription holders, just mention your plan to perform that kind of music for the whole evening.
That's the dilemma for orchestral music and its various cousins. If the same kind of prejudice existed in theater, the Hartford Stage Company would never perform anything by a playwright younger or newer than Eugene O'Neill.
If the pattern held true in art, the Wadsworth Atheneum would never hang a picture painted after 1900. Part of the problem is that a lot of new music really is weird and dissonant and intentionally estranged from the tastes of its potential audience. But not all of it is, and people who like modern music have had to find new ways to get it performed. That's where the Bang on a Can All-Stars come in ...
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E-mail from Adam
She's hardcore ,, very cool,, much more interesting than the conductor who sounded like Phil Hartman
E-mail from Stephanie
Hey, nice job on segueing from pops antics to new music.
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