Free Lunchtime Concert: Clarinet works of John Adams and Steve Reich
09 Feb 2015
On Thursday 12 February, 1.10pm at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
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John Adams’ Gnarly Buttons for clarinet and chamber ensemble, including banjo and keyboard samplers, uses American themes such as a Quaker hymn and a Hoedown to explore his relationship with his father as he struggled with Alzheimer’s disease.
Steve Reich’s virtuosic composition, New York Counterpoint is the second of three in which he uses a solo instrument accompanied by pre-recorded multiples of itself. Here he captures the vibrancy of his home city using the hypnotic clarinet.
This concert is free, no need to book just turn up.