 The score fragment above is from a choral piece by Jürg Frey, a member of the Wandelweiser group of composers and performers. I used it as the banner picture for a new Facebook group, 'New Music for Choir.' I was surprised that such a group did not already exist.
I am hoping that composers and new-music choirs will use this group to exchange information and promote new choral music. I have offered to change the banner picture to other score fragments that members send to me.
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On a recent trip to Istanbul I passed through a street full of music shops, and there I saw and heard a duduk for the first time. This is an Armenian double-reed instrument with an amazing sound, and as I found out later, at least one amazing performer, Gevorg Dabaghyan. You can find his recordings on Amazon - recommended.
I am reading the book Deeply Divided, Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America, by Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos, 2014, Oxford University Press.
The book is a historical overview of political polarization in the US since the beginning of the 20th Century. It argues that the moderate and unpolarized politics from the end of WW2 to the 1980s is an aberration, and that racism has gotten much worse since President Obama came into office. The book contains a depressing summary of what we already know to be true about right-wing extremism and how it is subverting political equality and the will of the people. However, it is useful to have this history in detail and to understand what is happening. Ignorance is worse than knowing the truth. |
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