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By: PRISM Quartet. August 3, 2017. Posted under: Featured, Breath Beneath

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Post-PRISM meets Bang on a Can concert shot with Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon - two of our favorites. We missed you David Lang!Symphonic Distribution Bang on a Can Conn Selmer Timothy McAllister Zach Shemon#NewMusic #saxophone #chambermusic ... See MoreSee Less

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PRISM Quartet Meets Bang on a Can (1/22 Philly, 1/23 NYC) features David Lang's "Revolutionary Etudes." Commissioned by the New Century Saxophone Quartet, the work was inspired by the ensemble's recording of The Art of Fugue by J.S. Bach, by, in the composer's words, “the monumentality of the project. It is asking to have the saxophone taken seriously, for all that it can do. As a composer I immediately imagined how important for the medium it would be for a composer to take this seriousness, this monumentality into consideration, in the creation of a new work. I started with what became the second movement of my piece, writing seemingly endless streams of notes, trying to trick the melodic and harmonic changes to emerge virtuosically from the dense fabric of the material. Somehow what I was doing reminded me of what Chopin did in his Etude, Opus 10, Number 12—make a ridiculously fast and vaguely minor scale last forever. Chopin’s piece is of course called the Revolutionary Etude. I decided to make a set of these myself."Concert info at www.prismquartet.com andwww.facebook.com/prismquartet/events (link also in Instagram profile).#saxophone #newmusic #revolutionary ... See MoreSee Less

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