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Recent Cygnus piece is a Pulitzer Prize finalist: “Brion,” by Harold Meltzer, premiered on April 23, 2008 at Merkin Hall,New York City, a sonic portrait of a cemetery in northern Italy paintedwith the touch of a watercolorist and marked by an episodic structureand vivid playfulness that offer a graceful, sensual and contemplativeexperience."---NY Times, quoting the Pulitzer panel. Click Here for more about Brion from the Cygnus archives. "--virtuosos in their ownright, and together produce chamber music proper...close observance ofeach other's actions...a very tight performance." ---Fanfare, May/June 2009
...awesome, edgy stuff that I'm hoping to spin quite a bit in weeks to come.--KZSU
With pairs of plucked strings, bowed strings and woodwinds, the band has a precedent in the Elizabethan “broken consort”. For some, guitar and mandolin will bring to mind Led Zeppelin's Going to California, for others--Schoenberg's Serenade. The Cygnus players are a versatile group of chamber musicians, all of whom are among the most highly respected practitioners of their instruments. Since its beginnings in 1985, Cygnus has created an new body of chamber music by both established and emerging composers, works that offer a striking timbral contrast to the now ubiquitous Pierrot ensemble formation. Tara Helen O'Connor, flute Robert Inglisss, Oboe
William Anderson, guitar/mandolin/banjo; Oren Fader, guitar/mandolin Calvin Wiersma, vln Susannah Chapman, vc Scroll Down for details about May 1 Performance featuring Matthew Greenbaum's Nameless---->
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Nameless
You missed the concert, but some mp3s of the live performances will be here-->
Hear Matthe...
The Change
Cygnus presents
The Change
A New Year's Eve Happening,
with 6 works on time
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