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Musicians Of The World, Unite!

Posted by Li Robbins on November 13, 2007 at 09:00 PM

There is more to union music than Union Maid, as proved tonight on The Signal, with Louis Andriessen's piece Worker's Union - a symphonic movement for "any loud sounding group of instruments." That gives performers a lot of leeway. (In this incarnation it's performed by the McGill Percussion Ensemble, but just think, presumably it could be for anything, bucket drummers, tubas, ukulele orch., anything)

Anyway, Andriessen says of the piece, "Only in the case that every player plays with such an intention that his part is an essential one, the work will succeed; just as in the political work." (Perhaps this explains why so frequently political work fails?)

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