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The CNT Split Opera
Ensemble received an invitation to open, on the 6th of
April 2003, the International Festival of Contemporary Music –
Zagreb Music Biennale with the production of a recently composed
triptych “Three Stories” by American composer Steve Reich.
The Zagreb Biennale
has been opened by: Berlin
Opera, London Symphonic, Prague Philharmonic, Berio, Stravinski,
Penderecky, Cage, Kelemen and many other respected ensembles and
artists. It’s a great
honor to be in such company. Reich,
a respected American musician, was born in 1936, and belongs today
to the circle of leading masters of modern music.
The Washington Post has written about his work that it’s
“absolutely amazing…so original in its inspiration and form that
it questions all earlier assumptions about the goal of art…”
Reich through his
path as a composer has embraced, not only the aspects of western
classical music, but also the structure, harmonies and rhythms of
eastern tradition, and jazz in particular.
The titles of
Reich’s stories are: “Hindenburg,”
“Bikini”, “Sheep Dolly”, and in them the author deals with
the problems faced by the twentieth century: cataclysmic progress,
the cynicism of technology which in the end is “biting its own
tail.”
In almost seventy
“minimalist minutes” we are told, in a humorous way, the whole
history of a slow and “studied” destruction.
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Ansambl Opere HNK Split dobio je
poziv da 6. travnja 2003. godine otvori Muzički biennale Zagreb, međunarodni
festival suvremene glazbe, izvedbom nedavno skladanog triptiha
"Tri priče" američkog skladatelja Stevea Reicha.
Biennale u Zagrebu do sada su otvarali: Berlinska opera, Londonski
simfoničari, Praška filharmonija, Berio, Stravinski, Pendrecky,
Cage, Kelemen i mnogi drugi ugledni ansambli i umjetnici. Velika je
čast naći se u tom društvu.
Reicha, jednog od vodećih
majstora suvremene glazbe, kritika opisuje ''naprosto očaravajućim''.
Možda i zbog toga što je na tako inventivan način u svom
skladateljskom radu prigrlio ne samo aspekte zapadne klasične
glazbe, nego i strukture, harmonije i ritmove istočne tradicije, a
posebno jazza.
Reichovu glazbenu superiornost sjajno nadopunjuje
intelektualna angažiranost njegovih skladbi, jer on se ne izbjegava
baviti problemima dvadesetog stoljeća: kataklizmičkim napretkom,
cinizmom tehnologije koja samu sebe "hvata za rep"...
'Tri priče'' - "Hindenburg"
, "Bikini" i "Ovca Dolly" sedamdesetak su
"minimalističkih minuta" koje na humorističan način pričaju
povijest polaganog i "prostudiranog" uništenja.
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