A Talk About Helmut Lachenmann’s Gran Torso For those of you in Manchester, I am giving a talk with the wonderful Quatuor Danel this Thursday on Lachenmann’s first string quartet, Gran Torso. The talk runs from 14:30 to 16:00 at the University of Manchester (map), but is preceded at 13:10 by a free lunchtime concert […]
This is Water!, for ensemble and tape, takes its name from the book of the same title by David Foster Wallace, subtitled ‘Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life’ (Little, Brown & co., New York, 2009). Here is the passage, which gives that book its name: There are these two young […]
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Thursday, 18 February 2010
Two short fragments for string quartet were workshopped at 14:30, Thursday 18 February by the Quatuor Danel as part of my Masters course. The two fragments are experiments with material and notation that I hope to develop into a fully-fledged quartet later in the year.