Customer Reviews

Hce: Here Comes Everybody

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The piece by Charles Wuorinen justifies the cost of this disc. Both the piece and the performance are white hot. Robert Morris' piece is fascinating, and Richard Festinger's piece is great fun.

New Millenium is the best Pierrot + percussion group on the planet. (A Pierrot Ensemble consists of clarinet, flute, violin, cello, piano.) On this disc their playing soars and much of the music on this disc is excellent, all of it eminently worthwhile. The piece by Festinger is a wonderful as is the Robert Morris work. While I'm not a fan of Feldman, I understand where he's coming from and this performance has to be the best performance of this work. Wuorinen's piece is, as I've come to expect, mind-blowing in the very best sense of that expression.

When's the next New Millenium disc coming out?!!

I got this CD because it includes Feldman's excellent "I Met Heine...", but am happy with all of the lively performances. The Wuorinen and Cage pieces are also noteworthy. I'm less familiar with Festinger and Morris, but their pieces are quite good, and much more than just "filler". The disc is recommendable, but only to confirmed fans of contemporary music, since it's either "New York School" (Feldman, Cage), or 12-tone (Wuorinen, Festinger, Morris).

Geekster, spare me your stuffing of music into boxes--everything is either New York school or 12-tone, Feh!

There is an enormous gulf between Festinger and Wuorinen, Morris and Festinger, etc. Leaving aside the issue of who's the better composer, which interests me not in the slightest degree, each of these composers has a strong voice and the works performed famously on this disc are beautiful exemplars of each of those three voices. If one embraces this music there is no tossing it into boxes as Geekster so crudely does.

the music on this CD is abominably bad. the reviewer below is a composer who is delighted that such a CD is recorded and distributed, no doubt because this composer most likely writes in a similarly degraded and talentless manner. The acoustically nonsensical noise contained on this CD will soothe the soul of every talentless composer today, of which there is a seemingly endless supply.

....and i have concluded that robert morris is an arrogant intellectual without the least musical talent -- not good enough to make a dent in the math field, but with enough math-smarts and an endless line of bull to bully into submission all those who cry "stop the music!" music? depends on your definition i guess.