Meredith Monk - Impermanence(ECM New Music, 2008)6 out of 10Meredith Monk has created works of beauty and challenge in every decade since (and including) the 1960s. She is a Monster of Ostinato-Laden New Music but is not exactly a minimalist; as new music hierarchies go, she should probably be placed above the living gods (Glass, Riley and Reich) and maybe even the other underdogs (Adams, Part ...
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"The Long Count" at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (Oct 28 - 31)The always eclectic BAM Next Wave Festival revealed its 2009 schedule today and while there are no huge indie rock concerts at the Opera House this time, there is still plenty of interesting stuff happening this year, including pieces by Meredith Monk, [...]
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On Friday, I posted a great link to a Ronald Newman film of Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable on Ubu web. Well, I didn't have the time to check it out further until today. I'm happy to say it's an incredible resource of films of artists and performers that many people wouldn't have access too.Since this is such a find, and I saw there was a serious lacking of Meredith Monk here on Mo...
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