Aku Sorensen, conductor

Raschèr Saxophone Quartet

Steve Reich: City Life

Philip Glass: Concerto for saxophone quartet

Terry Riley: In C

Before concert: performance artist Kira O'Reilly will perform at the main foyer at 18:30.

American minimalism is firmly ensconced in the history of music and over time has spread across styles and genres. In C (1964) by Terry Riley was one of the first ventures into minimalism, a protest to the order and strict discipline of narrow-minded modernism. The world-embracing key of C connects equally well with Buddhism and with progressive popular music. Philip Glass is known as a master of persistent ostinatos, but his four-movement sax concerto is relaxed, even if the second and fourth movements do contain his typical hypnotic pulsating rhythms. Steve Reich has the most street cred of all the great minimalist composers, literally so in City Life, where the chamber orchestra is underpinned by sounds recorded on the streets of New York, on beaches, in traffic and at demonstrations.

Concert is part of Tapiola Sinfonietta's Minimalism Festival.

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Tapiola Sinfonietta: CITY LIFE (Minimalism Festival)

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