Ledenconcert Gerard Bouwhuis
The good things about AmericaWhether it is the grooving rhythms of John Adams’s Road Movies, the references to popular music in Charles Ives’s Sonata, Cage’s hushed, almost melancholic sounds, or Cowell’s exuberant, baroque-inspired Suite, bursting at the seams, everything bears witness to how these American composers increasingly break free from the laws and conventions of the European musical tradition and seek new ways of expressing themselves.
Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have — I want it that way
Charles Ives
In the dark all cats are black
John Cage
Gerard Bouwhuis, piano
Heleen Hulst, viool
Charles Ives - Violin Sonata nr 2
John Cage - 6 Melodies
Henry Cowell - Suite for violin and piano
John Adams - Road Movies
Morton Feldman - Spring of chosroes
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