Toby Twining's big new piece at BOC

Last night great performance produced by Bang On A Can at Columbia
University's Miller Theatre featuring Toby Twining's "new" CHRYSALID
REQUIEM. (He's been working on it for 5 years). Nice piece. Rather
lengthy, a full-length requiem... probably 40 minutes, but interesting
in that the entire chorus of 12 (6 men, 6 women) wore headsets and took
their pitch cues from a laptop computer onstage. The purpose was to
create a work in just intonation... or some workable system thereof
(adaptive?? whoknows). Nice sounds of the overtone series behind the
singing added, at times, to the "ethereal" effect. Some people left,
expecting the traditional Bang on a Can "rock" offerings. Not that
those type pieces have been bad... it's just that BOC seems to be
expanding its "palette" these days, going back a bit more to the earlier
times before the big Lincoln Center "commercial" expansion... Twining,
as many list members probably know, posts here from time to time.

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Joseph Pehrson