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Bringing life to Glasgow's oldest building: the seventh Glasgow Cathedral Festival
De Profundis - the finale to the 2022 Glasgow Cathedral Festivalwith light, poetry and music from three brass bandsGlasgow Cathedral Festival returns for its seventh season with a weekend of events from 28 September to 1 October 2023 filling Glasgow's oldest building with a wide variety of music from chamber music and cutting-edge electronics to silent film and Minimalism.The headline event for this year is a performance of Canto Ostinato, a 1974 work by Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt (1923-2012). An iconic work of Dutch Minimalism, Canto Ostinato will be performed on four pianos by 12 pianists from the Piano Association of St Andrews over three hours, against a video backdrop from Trenchone Industries, projected directly onto the gothic cathedral interior. The audience will be invited to move around and get a drink or sit back and relax—creating their own experience of this unique spectacle.There are two classic silent films with […]
2021-05-10 05:32:13
Arguably the best-known work of Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt (1923-2012), Canto Ostinato was originally scored for one or more keyboards. It consists of more than 100 short sections that contain five beats to the measure, most of which can repeat as many times as one desires. Voicing and registration generally are left up to […]
2013-01-20 00:06:47
Grand Band Strikes LPR Again (A Review)
Grand Band soundchecking before the concert (Photo courtesy of Vicky Chow) Grand Band @ LPR Featuring Lisa Moore, Isabelle O’Connell, Vicky Chow, Blair McMillen, David Friend, and Paul Kerekes, pianos Le Poisson Rouge, NYC Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 Written by Tristan McKay Grand Band, New York City’s new music keyboard sextet, returned to Le Poisson Rouge this week to perform Simeon ten Holt’s magnum opus, Canto Ostinato. This evening marked their third appearance as a group—the first being at the Bang on a Can Marathon at the Winter Garden last June, followed by a concert at LPR of works by Julia Wolfe, Philip Glass, Kate Moore and Steve Reich in August. The sizzling, feisty and dazzling energy of Grand Band’s first two performances was this time substituted with a different brand of virtuosity: Canto Ostinato is a mystical, enchanting, and meditative epic, brilliantly and vividly […]
2013-01-16 10:14:28
Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt died this past November, leaving an avid cult following and a career that was sadly still going pretty much full steam. His vibrant and utterly original body of work came to wholeheartedly embrace improvisation, grappled with the 12-tone system and ultimately rejected it in favor of a blend of minimalism and good oldfashioned tunesmithing. For a prominent member of the late 20th century avant garde, ten Holt could be mighty catchy. Last night at the Poisson Rouge, all-star six-piano ensemble Grand Band paid homage to this maverick with a lushly starlit, seamlessly rippling performance of ten Holt’s best-known work, Canto Ostinato. This epic has echoes of the subtly shifting loops of Philip Glass and the insistent, bell-like tones of Louis Andriessen but also an unexpectedly comfortable, transparent neoromanticism a la Gabriel Faure. As bandleader David Friend took care to mention before the roughly hourlong performance, […]
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